Discussion With PEN, SCSU Fulbright students

1. What are formatting styles?

The more commonly-used styles include essay format APA, Chicago, Harvard, and MLA. In fact, MLA is among the most widely-used style

Each of the formatting styles has its own unique requirements in a number of areas such as:

• Title or cover pages
• Line spacing
• Font style/size
• Paragraph layout
• Paragraph indentation
• Page numbers
• Margin sizes
• Document binding
• Editing, proofreading, and so on.

1. Why different styles?

https://www.essay-writing-tips.com/formatting-styles/

• APA style guidelines: http://www.apastyle.org

In-text citations:

• MLA style guidelines: http://www.mla.org/style

Reference management tools: Zotero

https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=zotero