How do You Know Which Citation Style Should You Use?

Before begin with citing carefully go through the guidelines written in your course or provided by your university usually it is mention in the guidelines which citation style to use. But in case of no specified citation style mentioned in the guidelines this means the choice has been left all up to you therefore consider which citation style is used the most in your field.

• APA style citation is the most commonly used type of citation in sciences of behavior and socials.
• MLA style comes after APA style citation it is secondly most used citation style used in humanities for the most part.
• Chicago notes and Bibliography style are also very popular in humanities specially history.
• Chicago author date style is used in sciences.