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Differences in Citation Styles (APA, MLA, Vancouver, Chicago)

Students, researchers, and even college professors often face a common difficulty when citing sources in their academic writing: how to...

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How To Use Parenthetical Citations

From scholarly writers and researchers to university and graduate students, every academic writer needs to understand how to use...

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The Best Citation Format for Science Papers

When choosing the best citation format or style for a research paper, it is easy to get confused. One of...

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APA In-Text Citation Guide for Research Writing

Why Use In-Text Citation? When writing a journal article, literature review, convention paper, or any other academic document,...

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How to Introduce Evidence and Examples: 41 Effective Phrases

Research requires us to scrutinize information and assess its credibility. Accordingly, when we think about various phenomena, we examine empirical...

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How to Order Author Names and Why That Matters

It’s rare that an article is authored by only one or two people anymore. In fact, the average original research...

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A Researcher’s Guide to Citations: listing authors and using “et al.”

We publish because we want to share our knowledge and, often, because we want recognition for our work. We acknowledge...

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Which Tense Should Be Used in Abstracts: Past or Present?

Many of you have asked us questions about seemingly conflicting rules about which tense to use in a research article...

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Scientific Writing: A Verb Tense Review

If you’ve been wondering about which verb tense to use in your research papers, below is a quick cheat sheet...

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