Writing styles guide

Writing Style guides is the source for you to write and format documents. It is a formal documentation to be presented consistently across all communications. The style guide tells you how to be grammatically correct and how to ensure consistency across your  own writing.  The basic concept of this guidance is to make all the information readable We can divide commonly used systems of documentation  in  four  parts: APA  style   (American  Psychological   Association),  used  in  education,
psychology  and  the  social   sciences;  MLA  style  (Modern  Language
Association),  used  in  English  and  Humanities;  Chicago/Turabian  style,
used  in  history,  business  and  humanities  and  Harvard  style,  used as
Author-Date system. Let us through brief light on them:

1)  The APA citation style
To  increase the readiness  of reading comprehension, APA (American Psychological 
Associa tion) Style was  originated  in 192 9,  es tablished by a group of psychologis ts,
anthropologis ts, and  business  manage rs.

For ensuring  clear and  consistent  representation of written material, APA
citation  style  has   its  own  rules  and  guidelines  being  witnessed  by  the
publisher.  APA  Style  pays  attention  to selection  of  headings,   tone,  and
length,  punctuation  and  abbreviations,  presentation  of  numbers  and
statistics, construction of tables and figures, citation of references, etc.

The three kinds of information to be included in In-text citation are:
   Author's last name
   Work's date of publication
   The page number
Understanding Reference List in APA Style:
•    The bibliographic information is displayed in a format called the
Reference List.
•    The entries are listed in alphabetical order, by the authors’ surnames.
•    Only the initials of authors’ first names are used.
• Multiple  works  by  the  same  author  should  be  arranged  by
publication date, starting with the earliest.
•    The entire reference list should be double-spaced.
• Article  title  or  chapter  title:  only  the  first  word  of  the  title  and  of
any  subtitle  is capitalized.  There  should  be  no  italics  or  quotation
• Book  and  report  titles:  only  the  first  word  of  the  title  and  of  the
subtitle  should  be capitalized. The title  should be  in  italics with no
• Periodical  (journals,  newsletters, magazines)  titles:  All major words
in titles should be capitalized, and titles should also be italicized with
no quotation marks.
• Place  of  publication:  For  locations  within  Canada  and  the  United
States, the name of the city should be followed by a comma and the
standard  province  or  state   abbreviation.  For     locations  outside
Canada  and  the  United  states,  the  city  name should be followed

Major Citations for a Reference List/Bibliography