A citation style is a uniform way to identify materials you reference in your work. There are many citation styles across academia as well as across the biology discipline.
For this course, you can choose which citation style you want to use, but be consistent.
Citation help
Citations are tough to get right and it takes practice to get good at them. This is something that the MNSU Reference Librarians can help with!
There are a couple of online library resources that can help you create citations. These aren't perfect and need to be checked against the correct style guide, but they provide a good starting point.
MavScholar provides citations from within an individual search result. Look for the Citation tab, there are multiple styles available.
Some journals and databases also generate citations for you. Look for a Cite button.
