{"id":399,"date":"2014-07-25T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/writershandbook\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=399"},"modified":"2014-07-25T21:21:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T21:21:53","slug":"22-1-choosing-a-documentation-format","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-mcc-styleguide\/chapter\/22-1-choosing-a-documentation-format\/","title":{"raw":"22.1 Choosing a Documentation Format","rendered":"22.1 Choosing a Documentation Format"},"content":{"raw":"&nbsp;\r\n<div class=\"im_section\">\r\n<h2 class=\"im_title im_editable im_block\"><span class=\"im_title-prefix\">22.1<\/span> Choosing a Documentation Format<\/h2>\r\nAs a rule, your assignments requiring research will specify a documentation format. If you are free to use the style of your choice, you can choose any format you want as long as you are consistent, but you should know that certain disciplines tend to use specific documentation styles:\r\n<ul class=\"im_itemizedlist im_editable im_block\" id=\"mccrimmon-ch22_s01_l01\">\r\n\t<li>business and social sciences: American Psychological Association (APA)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>natural and applied sciences: Council of Science Editors (CSE)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>humanities: Modern Language Association (MLA) or the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nFor the purposes of this appendix, we will confine ourselves to the three documentation formats that will be the most common in your undergraduate courses: the style manuals from APA and MLA, as well as CMS. (Other formats are listed at the end of this appendix. Also, note this appendix explains the \u201cNotes-Bibliography\u201d system of CMS, used more often in history, the arts, and humanities, rather than the \u201cAuthor-Date\u201d system, used in the sciences and social sciences.)\r\n\r\nThese three systems of documentation have been refined over many generations so that academics can rely on certain standards of attribution when they cite each other\u2019s work and when their work is cited. When you enter into an academic conversation in a given discipline, it\u2019s imperative that you play by its rules. It\u2019s true that popular, nonacademic forms of attribution exist. Making a link to another website in a blog or a Twitter post works quite well, but in an academic context, such a form of attribution is not sufficient. Of course it should go without saying that stealing someone else\u2019s words or borrowing them without attribution, whether you do it casually on the web or in an academic context, is simply wrong.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"im_section\">\n<h2 class=\"im_title im_editable im_block\"><span class=\"im_title-prefix\">22.1<\/span> Choosing a Documentation Format<\/h2>\n<p>As a rule, your assignments requiring research will specify a documentation format. If you are free to use the style of your choice, you can choose any format you want as long as you are consistent, but you should know that certain disciplines tend to use specific documentation styles:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"im_itemizedlist im_editable im_block\" id=\"mccrimmon-ch22_s01_l01\">\n<li>business and social sciences: American Psychological Association (APA)<\/li>\n<li>natural and applied sciences: Council of Science Editors (CSE)<\/li>\n<li>humanities: Modern Language Association (MLA) or the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the purposes of this appendix, we will confine ourselves to the three documentation formats that will be the most common in your undergraduate courses: the style manuals from APA and MLA, as well as CMS. (Other formats are listed at the end of this appendix. 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