![]() ![]() The world is full of different guides or rulebooks for how to cite sources for academic, legal, policy or other kinds of written work. If you’re citing an old source with a long title, include the full long title and be sure to include the year and the edition since people used to change the text a lot between editions. And many of these are available online, so you may be using PDFs of them. Older sources tend to have much longer titles, sometimes even a full paragraph long. This gets especially tough with older sources from before the 1930s. And you want to include just those necessary details, not more. Remember: what you’re always aiming to do is write the details of your source in such a way that anyone could find it if they wanted to read it too. They could be using a modified version of these citation styles, and, to be honest, you probably won’t win any arguments with them over how the citations should really be done. The main thing to remember though is: if the person you are turning your work into has told you how to cite something, follow their rules, even if they’re wrong by my standards. So, let’s begin by saying that you’re going to want to take a hot second to sit down and read through this list.
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