Referencing Styles

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APA Style

Like Harvard, APA uses an author-date format and is common in the social sciences.

Chicago Style

A style which uses either footnotes and a bibliography or the author-date format.

Harvard Style

One of the most common and widely used referencing styles available to students.

MHRA Style

The Modern Humanities Research Association is popularly used in the arts.

MLA Style

If you’re a linguist, you’ll be referencing in the Modern Language Association style.

Oxford OSCOLA Style

This is an Oxford style that is used to reference legal documents primarily in the UK,.

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