Common Citation Style in Scientific Writing

[Hope2008]

Among MLA, APA, or Chicago, which citation style is used the most in scientific writing?

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[StormingWynn]

Isn't it APA?

 

[TooMuchResearch]

It really depends on the purpose of the writing. Style guides vary by discipline and journal.

 

[Hope2008]

Isn't it APA?

I thought it's APA too. However, I looked some scientific journals and they use Chicago.

 

[loveoforganic]

I have used APA for my writing, but my research I've done writing for is in psych! So yeah!

 

[mmmcdowe]

Among MLA, APA, or Chicago, which citation style is used the most in scientific writing?

Harvard Science is pretty common, but many journals have their own unique citation style. This is why we have EndNote to automatically make our citations match!

 

[startswithb]

Acs

 

[StormingWynn]

I thought it's APA too. However, I looked some scientific journals and they use Chicago.

Yeah, I'm currently doing psychological research and I've seen many articles that us Chicago and sometimes MLA. APA is largely used for scientific papers so I think it's safe to us it.

 

[LizzyM]

Uniform Requirements aka Vancouver is used for Biomedical research....http://www.icmje.org/

list your references, in the order of appearance, and number the list using arabic numerals. Place the arabic numberals, in parenthesis, at the point in the text where the citation belongs. If citing more than one item use (1-3) or (3, 6-8). Use the same number if citing the same item more than once.

The reference appears as follows:

Smith A, Jones G. The amazing monoclonal antibody in the mouse model. N Engl J Med 2001;234:345-6.

Note that only the first letter of the first word of the title is capitalized. The title of the journal is abbreviated unless it is a one word title (e.g. Gut). The year is followed by a semi-colon, then the volume followed by a colon and then the page numbers inclusive. If the journal does not number consecutively through the entire volume (most do) you can add the issue number in parenthesis following the volumn number.

 

[randombetch]

Honestly, it varies by journal to journal. We just use EndNote or RefWorks, download all our citations, and select the journal whose format we want to match.

 

[TooMuchResearch]

Honestly, it varies by journal to journal. We just use EndNote or RefWorks, download all our citations, and select the journal whose format we want to match.

EndNote saved my life in college 🙂