Examples of style in the following topics:
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- Chicago style, created by the University of Chicago, is the primary citation style used for papers in history.
- Chicago style is a citation and formatting style you may encounter in your academic career.
- The Chicago Manual of Style (abbreviated in writing as Chicago style, CMS, or CMOS) is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press.
- Except for a few minor differences, Turabian style is the same as Chicago style.
- For example, Chicago style does use the Oxford comma, which some other citation styles (e.g., AP style) do not.
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- MLA style is one of the most common citation and formatting styles you will encounter in your academic career.
- MLA style, the house style of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA), has two official publications.
- The second is the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, called the MLA Style Manual for short.
- For example, MLA style does use the Oxford comma, which some other citation styles (e.g., AP style) do not.
- MLA style also provides guidelines for citing your sources—in fact, this is why it is called a "citation style."
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- APA style, which is based on the American Psychological Association style manual, is widely used in many forms of academic writing.
- APA style is one of the most common citation and formatting styles you will encounter in your academic career.
- APA style includes many basic grammatical rules.
- For example, APA style does use the Oxford comma, which some other citation styles (e.g., AP style) do not.
- APA style also puts forth guidelines for citing your sources—in fact, this is why it is called a "citation style."
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- In Chicago style, headings are used to organize your writing and give it a hierarchical organization.
- In Chicago style, headings are used to organize your writing and give it a hierarchical organization.
- Chicago style puts forth specific rules for formatting headings (up to five levels) within your paper:
- These are the formatting rules for different levels of headings in APA style.
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- Even while following the rules of content and style, you can develop your own unique voice.
- "Voice" refers to elements of the author's tone, phrasing, and style that are recognizably unique to her or him.
- Saying each writer has a unique voice does not mean that each writer has a radically different style from anyone else.
- Much like the people shown above dressed in different costumes, every writer has a distinct style.
- You should maintain the distinctive elements of your voice and style in the academic context.
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- A paper in Chicago/Turabian style has a title page that follows specific formatting rules.
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- Because papers using APA style often report experimental data, you must be able to discuss statistics in your paper.
- Since experimental papers in the social sciences are usually written in APA style, you will need to know how to properly talk about statistics in the text of your paper.
- This figure shows the proper way to report statistics in an APA-style paper.