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The Purdue OWL: Citation Chart 1 Category MLA APA CMS General Approach The Modern Language Association The American Psychological Association The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) provides a (MLA) provides a method for source (APA) provides a method for source method for source documentation that is used documentation that is used in most documentation that is used in most in most history courses. History places much humanities courses. The humanities social sciences courses. The social emphasis on source origins, so footnotes and place emphasis on authorship, so most sciences place emphasis on the date a endnotes are used to demonstrate on MLA citation involves recording the work was created, so most APA citation where a particular piece of information was author’s name in the physical text. The involves recording the date of a derived from. In CMS, a number is assigned to author’s name is also the first to appear particular work in the physical text. The a particular fact in the text, and a footnote or in the “Works Cited” page at the end of date is usually placed immediately after endnote will appear at the bottom of the page