Oxford style of referencing is one of the most important styles of citing references and is preferred mostly for social science and literature oriented disciplines. Here are few guidelines as to how one ought to go about with the Oxford style of referencing.
Oxford style of referencing prefers footnotes and not in text style citation like it is used in MLA, APA, Harvard, Chicago styles of referencing. This system is quite similar to the Chicago style but there is a difference however. In the Chicago style the same citation which is put at the list of references is also put as a footnote. While in the Oxford referencing generator the footnotes must involve the secondary style, while in the reference list only the source from where the piece of work has sourced is supposed to be cited.
10 R. Ago, Gusto for Things, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 2013, cited in D. Biow, On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, p. 220.
This is how the footnotes are supposed to be cited. The name of the specific article referred along with the name of the author is placed before the main source from where the work has been taken.
Biow, D., On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
While in the Reference List only the name of the source is supposed to be put.
For the Oxford style of referencing, the list of references is titled as ‘Reference List’ and the works cited are alphabetically arranged. These are some of the most important rules and regulations that ought to be followed in order to correctly format the Oxford style of Referencing. These guidelines are what makes the Oxford referencing unique and novel which should be strictly followed.
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