Whether you are choosing a style or using a prescribed one, it is always important to be able to find the guidelines in question and to apply these consistently. How does this work in practice?
If you are doing this by hand, you need to type all of the references in the text, footnotes and endnotes, as well as the entire references in the bibliography, carefully applying all of the citation rules. This is a major chore, and you can easily overlook small errors.
We recommend automating this job by using a citation tool, or citation software. This will save you a lot of time You can choose between RefWorks, Zotero and Mendeley.
The following video explains how these tools work.