Disciplinary styles
Apart from the three major citation styles, APA, MLA, and Chicago, several sciences developed their own distinctive citation styles. Despite their differences, all these documentation styles have the same basic goal:
- to describe the source,
- to credit its creator,
- to guide the readers to the actual source so they will be able to use it themselves.
Fortunately, the disciplinary citation styles include a lot of the same information with the major styles. This means that you shouldn't worry about which kind of citations you will ultimately use as you could alternatively use one of the major ones.
Check the table below to find out which disciplinary style manuals are available, access them, and see which alternative style you could use.