Different professors may ask you to use different citation styles—MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, —but no matter which one you’re working with, every style controls the same three areas of your paper:
General Format – How the paper looks on the page (margins, spacing, headers, titles).
Bibliography – How you present the full list of sources you used.
In-Text Citations – How you credit sources within the body of your paper.
Once you understand these three areas, shifting from one citation style to another is mostly about learning the specific rules of that style—not starting over from scratch.
For comprehensive information on the most prevalent formatting/citation styles used in MJC courses, please visit the links below: