Citation Styles
Every CitationLab post tagged citation styles. This topic runs through several posts across the blog — case files where it caused a real problem, and guides for handling it in your own reference list.
Et al. done right
How many authors et al. may stand in for, when it may first appear, and whether the reference list may use it at all are decided by your style. What the rules are, and why the abbreviation is the most information-destroying thing you can do to a citation.
How to tell what citation style your thesis uses
Your thesis probably does not have one style. Identify the shape of each citation instead — six forms, decidable from the surface — and diagnose your own document in ten minutes.
The APA default that broke every Vancouver thesis
Most citation tools silently assume author–date referencing. Here is what that default does to a numbered Vancouver thesis — including the weeks our own system detected the style, then threw the answer away.