Section 3
Citation styles

There are two levels in acknowledging source material.

  • The last section explained cases for which source material must be acknowledged.
  • This section explains how an acknowledgement can be presented.

1. Numbered references
2. Harvard style
3. Citation in the text
4. Information for each discipline



Section 3-4
Information for each discipline - Science

Disciplines
Arts
Business Administration
Education
Engineering
Law
Medicine
Science
Social Science

Discipline Society / Journal URL for guidelines
Science
Life Sciences Elsevier http://www.elsevier.com/journals/bba-general-subjects/0304-4165/guide-for-authors#68000
Journal of Biological Chemistry https://paperpile.com/s/the-journal-of-biological-chemistry-citation-style/
Biochemical Journal https://portlandpress.com/biochemj/pages/submission_checklist
Biochemistry http://pubs.acs.org/page/bichaw/submission/index.html
Cell http://www.cell.com/cell/authors
The Biological Bulletin

http://www.biolbull.org/site/misc/ifora.xhtml#references

Journal of Experimental Biology http://jeb.biologists.org/content/manuscript-prep
The American Physiological Society

https://www.physiology.org/author-info.permissions

https://www.physiology.org/author-info.ethical-policies

https://www.physiology.org/author-info  

Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/gta/index.html#a5.4
Science https://www.science.org/content/page/instructions-preparing-initial-manuscript
PNAS http://www.pnas.org/site/authors/procedures.xhtml
Chemistry American Chemical Society http://pubs.acs.org/userimages/ContentEditor/1246030496632/chapter14.pdf
Physics American Physical Society http://journals.aps.org/files/styleguide-pr.pdf
Statistics American Statistical Association

https://www.tandf.co.uk//journals/authors/style/reference/tf_R.pdf

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/14679868/author-guidelines
Statistica Sinica

http://www3.stat.sinica.edu.tw/statistica/author_instru.html

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