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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on October 9, 2015 at 19:58

Dear Sri Surajit,
I have gone through your post. As I presume, the easiest way is to see any bibliographical database. You will find the bibliography with annotated abstract for various types of documents.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray

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Permalink Reply by Surajit on October 9, 2015 at 21:02

hello sir,

sir, if I will go for a single database, I hope i will get a single bibliographic style format there. I want to see and understand the differences occurs when we use the different style manual for a single document's bibliography.

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Permalink Reply by Munesh Kumar on October 9, 2015 at 23:37

Dear Sir,

As I understood from your post is/are,

Which format wold be better to choose or go for? - Answer - any style you can choose, there is no monopoly of referencing style in professional market except preferences. You may choose, MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, Vancouver, Turabian any one. Each will work for your purpose. But, generally when we start to publish our work, we check with publisher, who will publish the article. So, according to the format of publisher we need to format/customize our article and similarly bibliographies also to be changed. So primarily need to check the referencing style accepted by publisher. It varies publisher to publisher.

The second point which you have mentioned on the knowledge of different citations styles, I would like say that no need to read all the styles at this stage, simple you please check with the publisher, which style is accepted by publisher you can prepare in same style. By this way slowly you will come to know the difference between/among the citation styles as you will intact with different publishers.

The third point based on the recommendations, I would like to document or share the information which will be helpful to you.

First  - Online study

Please follow the link given below (a mechanism to generate citations as per our wish online) 

https://www.citethisforme.com/

Now, you please open this link in your browser and take a document may be a book, journal, DVD/CD, patent, anything and click on the particular document button on above website and search document by standards no. or fill the bibliographic details manually, and generate the citation and bibliography. You please do the same activity within the framework of different citation styles given at website and then compare them, definitely you will be able to find out the difference between/among diffident styles. 

Please you do this much only, then I would tell you next thing to do...

Thank you...

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Surajit on October 15, 2015 at 6:48

thank u for your such a valuable link....I have alrdy tried it...now tell what i have to do now?
I will wait ur reply...

yours,

Surajit

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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on October 11, 2015 at 23:44

Dear Sri Surajit,

Thanks for your post. In your first post you have mentioned about your confusion in "choosing" (as I presume, it was a confusion of 'selecting' isn't it?).

In your second post you have mentioned that you WANT TO SEE & UNDERSTAND about the differences in various styles!

I have no idea however, what is your actual purpose though, but as I went through the posts of Sri Munesh Kumar and Sri Ajit, P., I think they have explained it adequately in a holistic manner.

Unlike me, they have even provided you with ready made solutions but had you explained your purpose, the suggestions would have more specific as I understand.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray

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Permalink Reply by Surajit on October 13, 2015 at 20:38

Sir,
I have a confusion regarding choices of selecting the style which i want to use in my writings. Reasons,i want the see the differences among those styles and understand , and then will able to decide. Mr Munesh and Mr Ajit shared a good link to understand the actual thing, which might be solve my purpose.

thanking you sir,
Surajit.

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Permalink Reply by Ajit P on October 11, 2015 at 1:17

Dear Sh. Surajit,

Writing Bibliography styles you can find in the Windows OFfice 7 Word File. You can chose different style there and also you can change any style of Bibliography to any other styles.

Example:

1. Open a new  Office 7 Word File

2. In the New opened File, There are Tool bars like: Home; Insert; Page Layout; Reference etc.

3. Click on the Reference Tool 

4. In the Third Column of the Reference Tool bar you will find:

                a. Manage Sources

                b. Style

                c. Insert Citation

                d. Bibliographies.

5. Click the drop button of the Style sub tool under Reference Tool Bar, you will find several        Bibliographical styles of writing. ex. APA Fifth Ed., APA sixth Ed.; Chicago style; MLA Style etc.

6. For Inserting Bibliography: Click on the "Manage Sources Subtool" under Rereference Tool Bar.

7. A Window will Open: 2 boxes will Appear with the names: Master List and Current List

8. In between both the list, there you will find a button named "NEW".

9. Click on the NEW button: another window named "Create Source"  will Appear.

10. Examples are given to insert a new bibliographical tool.

11. After inserting all your bibliographical details, it will be saved in your Master List with a default APA Style Format.

12. You can change the style of existing database of Bibliographical Records by changing the Style Subtool bar under reference Toll bar.

13. Finally click on the Bibliography Sub tool Bar under Reference Tool Bar To Display on the Words File.

Hope this will be helpful.

regards,

Ajit P. 

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Permalink Reply by Munesh Kumar on October 11, 2015 at 1:47

Thank You, Ajit Sir

Your work is just an advanced step of mine, offline mode of bibliography preparation...in more organized and well professionally written, just like a manual. I think this would be enough to understand all about the Bibliography.

But, I would like to here from Shri. Surajit Sir, "what to do next to make him understood all about bibliographies?

Thank You. 

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Permalink Reply by Ajit P on October 12, 2015 at 0:44

Dear Sh. Surajit,
Pl find the attachment of examples related to APA Style; Chicago Style abnd MLA Style.

regards,

Ajit P.

Attachments:

• APA_Style[1] (1).pdf, 34 KB
• Chicago_Style(1).pdf, 67 KB
• mla style.pdf, 540 KB

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Permalink Reply by Surajit on October 13, 2015 at 20:39

Thanks a lot sir for your initiative. I will see the document and defintly give u the feedback .
thanks once again...

Surajit.

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Permalink Reply by Ram Laut Tyagee on October 15, 2015 at 19:12

Easiest way is to install any Citation manager software, a lot of free software is available. You can choose Menedeley it is free up to two gb, and allows online as well as offline access of your file and bibliographies drag all your file in it and it will automatically fetch the bibliographic data from internet or from google scholar.

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