Chapter 20 is a short overview on citation styles and proper documentation of sources. There are several documentation systems, all of them associated with different disciplines, and they all have their own rules for documenting sources.
If I were writing my own paper for submission in a scholarly magazine, I would want to use APA if I were submitting to a magazine with a focus on sociology, anthropology, or political science, and I would want to use Chicago if I decided to submit it to a primarily historical magazine instead.
Chicago would be my most likely choice, and a history magazine the best match for my paper’s topic. Most of my sources have used the Chicago style. It’s characterized by in-text citations in the form of footnotes -- a superscripted number at the end of a point that needs citation, with the matching citations arranged at the bottom of each page. These citations are repeated at the end of the document in a works cited list.
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