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APA 6th edition - Author, year

In-text: "Quote ....." (Neville, 2010, p. 71) OR According to Neville (2010) ... OR There are several .... (Neville, 2010; author, year; author, year) 

Reference list:

Book: Neville, C. (2010). The complete guide to referencing and avoiding plagiarism (2nd ed.). United Kingdom: Open University Press.

Chapter: Harrington, A. R. (2019). Global governance and the Sustainable Development Goals. In S. Dalby, S. Horton, R. Mahon, & D. Thomaz (Eds.), Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Global Governance Challenges (pp. 240–254). Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY: Routledge.

Article: Klitzing, N., Hoekstra, R., & Strijbos, J. W. (2019). Literature practices: processes leading up to a citation. Journal of Documentation, 75(1), 62–77. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-03-2018-0047

Vancouver - Numbered

Reference list book (1), chapter (2) and article (3)

  1. Neville C. The complete guide to referencing and avoiding plagiarism. 2nd ed. United Kingdom: Open University Press; 2010.
  2. Harrington AR. Global governance and the Sustainable Development Goals. In: Dalby S, Horton S, Mahon R, Thomaz D, editors. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Global Governance Challenges. Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY: Routledge; 2019. p. 240–54. 
  3. Klitzing N, Hoekstra R, Strijbos JW. Literature practices: processes leading up to a citation. J Doc. 2019 Jan 14;75(1):62–77. 

MLA 8th edition - Twitter

In-text: (@roskildeuni)

Reference list: @roskildeuni (RUC). "#TransformingforSustainability concluded with presentations of possible solutions to different problems regarding sustainability. One of the suggested solutions was to design different types of bottles suited for the ways of living in different regions of the world." Twitter, 29 Nov. 2018, 19.17, twitter.com/roskildeuni/ status/1068192221881647111