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
• Science
• Social Science

Discipline Society / Journal URL for guidelines
Science
Biochemistry Elsevier http://ees.elsevier.com/bbagen/
Journal of Biological Chemistry http://www.jbc.org/site/misc/ifora.xhtml#_References
Biochemical Journal http://www.biochemj.org/bj/bji2a.htm
Biochemistry http://pubs.acs.org/journals/bichaw/index.html
Cell http://www.cell.com/authors#res_art_format
Biology The Biological Bulletin

http://www.biolbull.org/misc/ifora.shtml#references

Journal of Experimental Biology http://jeb.biologists.org/author/manuscript_preparation.dtl#references
The American Physiological Society http://www.the-aps.org/publications/authorinfo/elements.htm#references
Chemistry American Chemical Society http://pubs.acs.org/about.html
Chinese Medicine Journal of TCM http://www.jtcm.net.cn
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica http://www.imm.ac.cn/acta.asp
Physics Physical Review A http://publish.aps.org/STYLE/
Statistics American Statistical Association

http://pubs.amstat.org/page/styleguide

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society http://www.wiley.com/bw/submit.asp?ref=1369-7412
Statistica Sinica

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

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