## Reference styles

As mentioned above, there are many systems for citing sources, known as ‘reference styles’ or ‘citation styles’. Each style has detailed rules for how to refer to sources such as articles, books, book chapters, websites, social media, data, newspaper articles and AI tools in the text and in the bibliography. Which style you should use depends on the programme you are following. Bookmark one of the guides below so that you always have it to hand.

APA-style(psychology but als common in Social Sciences)

- Guidelines to APA style (HAN University of Applied Sciences)
- APA-style Tilburg University

Vancouver-style ((widely used in biomedical sciences)

- Vancouver style (Universiteit Utrecht)

ACS-style(widely used in the beta sciences)

- ACS style guidelines quick guide (American Chemical Society)

Chicago-style (used in Humanities)

- Chicago style citation quick guide (The Chicago Manual of Style)
- Chicago style (Scribbr)