Formatting Styles
categories: e-learning
Discussion With PEN, SCSU Fulbright students
- 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.
- Why different styles?
https://www.essay-writing-tips.com/formatting-styles/
- APA style guidelines: http://www.apastyle.org
In-text citations:
Apa style from Erika Price
- MLA style guidelines: http://www.mla.org/style
Reference management tools: Zotero