60+ Citation Styles Explained: Cite References Now

Citation Style	Field / Discipline	Citation System	Main Difference
APA	Social sciences	Author-date	Focus on publication year.
MLA	Humanities	Author-page	Uses page numbers instead of year.
Chicago	History	Notes & bibliography	Uses footnotes and bibliography.
Harvard	General academic	Author-date	Common university referencing system.
IEEE	Engineering	Numeric	Uses numbered citations in brackets.
Vancouver	Medicine	Numeric	References numbered by order of appearance.
AMA	Medical journals	Numeric	Used widely in clinical publications.
Turabian	Student research	Notes/Bibliography	Simplified Chicago style.
ACS	Chemistry	Numeric / Author-date	Flexible referencing methods.
OSCOLA	Law	Footnotes	Legal citations for cases and statutes.
CSE	Biology	Name-year / Numeric	Three citation systems available.
ASA	Sociology	Author-date	Similar to APA but sociology-focused.
APS	Physics	Numeric	Used by American Physical Society.
AGLC	Law (Australia)	Footnotes	Australian legal referencing.
MHRA	Humanities	Footnotes	Arts and humanities referencing.
NLM	Biomedical research	Numeric	Used by National Library of Medicine.
Bluebook	Law (US)	Footnotes	Standard US legal citation guide.
ISO 690	International	Flexible	Global referencing standard.
BibTeX	LaTeX research	Structured	Automated references in LaTeX.
Nature	Science journals	Numeric	Used by Nature publications.
Science	Scientific publishing	Numeric	Used in Science journal.
APSA	Political science	Author-date	Political science referencing.
AAA	Anthropology	Author-date	Anthropology research citations.
SBL	Biblical studies	Footnotes	Used in theological writing.
GSA	Geology	Author-date	Geological Society style.
AIP	Physics	Numeric	American Institute of Physics format.
Elsevier Harvard	Scientific journals	Author-date	Modified Harvard referencing.
Springer Basic	Scientific journals	Numeric	Springer journal referencing.