A Guide for Vancouver & MLA Style Reference Formats – Tutors India

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A GUIDE ON THE REFERENCE FORMATS VANCOUVER MLA
STYLE
An Academic presentation by Dr. Nancy Agnes,
Head, Technical Operations, Tutors India Group
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TODAY'S DISCUSSION

• Introduction
• Vancouver Referencing
• Step for Vancouver Style Formatting
• The Basics of Vancouver Reference Style
• MLA Referencing
• Why MLA Style Is Used
• Basic MLA Formatting Guidelines
• Conclusion

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INTRODUCTION

• The Reference citation is the evidence required
  to validate the paper for academic research
  guides for reference citation.
• It provides credible references for the claims,
  facilitates the reader's access to those
  references, and admits that the information
  utilized in a paper did not come from the author.
  
• The citation style determines the information
  required for a citation Pandey et al. (2020) ,
  its arrangement, punctuation, and other
  formatting.

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VANCOUVER REFERENCING

• Vancouver is a numbered referencing style
  frequently used in science and medicine. It
  entails Textual references to other people's work
  denoted by a number. For example , a reference
  list after the document is numbered in order and
  includes comprehensive information about each
  in-text citation.

STEP FOR VANCOUVER STYLE FORMATTING

• Each number in the reference list should
  correspond to a number in the text and be listed
  numerically. The list ought to come at the end of
  your writing. For example, books, journal
  articles in print or online, etc., must all be
  written in a specific format (Stringer, 2020).
• Two formats are used to show references

• At the end of the essay, include a reference list
  or bibliography and citations inside the text.
• Citation-sequence, citation-name, and name-year
  are the three most common in-text reference
  formats (Charing, 2022).

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THE BASICS OF VANCOUVER REFERENCE STYLE

• Margin settings are 1". (2.54 cm).
• Times New Roman, as well as Arial 12 pt font
  size, is used.
• The essay's text should typically be
  double-spaced, although your instructor may
  request that you utilize single spacing.
• A different number should be assigned to each
  author's source in their article.
• When writing a manuscript for publication in a
  medical journal, the Vancouver referencing style
  is typically followed, and a cover page is
  unnecessary.
• If a title page is necessary, it must adhere to a
  specified structure and include the author's
  qualifications and address.

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MLA REFERENCING

• The most common topic areas subject guide where
  papers are written are the humanities and liberal
  arts. MLA style is used to cite sources (Modern
  Language Association) format (Bailey et al.,
  2022). The MLA citation style has two parts

• Short parenthetical citations incorporated into
  the essay's body content are in-text citations.
• A "Works Cited" list that is alphabetically
  arranged after these references provide more
  information about the sources. This covers the
  primary and supplementary texts you utilized to
  complete your assignment. The works cited in your
  main text must match every entry on the Works
  Cited page.

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WHY MLA STYLE IS USED

• To make sure that academic writing consistently
  uses the English language.
• For the sake of clarity and navigational comfort,
  to guarantee uniform formatting and display of
  information.
• Ensure that ideas are correctly credited to their
  sources to maintain intellectual integrity
  (Jones, 2021).

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Figure 1. Components of MLA Style
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BASIC MLA FORMATTING GUIDELINES

• The text should be the 12-point size on the
  paper. MLA demands that ordinary and italicized
  text be identifiable, regardless of the chosen
  font. It is common to propose Times and Times New
  Roman.
• Double-spacing should be used throughout the
  entire paper.
• All page margins should be one inch (top, bottom,
  left, and right), and the left-justified is
  required for all text.
• Every paragraph's first line needs to be indented
  by 0.5 inches.
• Every page should have the top margin of a
  right-justified header 0.5 inches away and a
  left-justified, the last name, a comma, in this
  heading, along with the page number. The
  arrangement of the pages should be denoted by a
  Number system (1, 2, 3, etc.), starting at 1 on
  the title.

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CONCLUSION

• It provides us with a standard presentation or
  referencing format. For example, MLA and
  Vancouver Referencing Generator are one of the
  Styles for Formatting the Paper.
• Understanding the work's historical context is
  helpful when there is support or a noteworthy
  remark. Therefore, it is possible to prevent
  plagiarism.

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