The Knee Referencing Guide
(updated Mar 2024)


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How to do citations in The Knee style?

This is the Citationsy guide to The Knee citations, reference lists, in-text citations, and bibliographies.
The complete, comprehensive guide shows you how easy citing any source can be. Referencing books, youtube videos, websites, articles, journals, podcasts, images, videos, or music in The Knee.

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How do you cite a book in the The Knee referencing style? (2024 Guide)

Have you come across fiction, non-fiction, history, novel or any other book and you want to include it in your works-cited-list in The Knee? This is how.

Here’s an example book citation in The Knee using placeholders:
[1]
Last Name FN. Title. Edition. City: Publisher; 2000.
So if we want to cite, for example, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou we’d do so like this:
The Knee citation:
[1]
Angelou M. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 1st ed. New York: Random House; 1969.
And an in-text citation book citation in The Knee looks like this: [1]


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How to reference a journal article in the The Knee citation style?

How do you cite scientific papers in The Knee format?

Use the following template to cite a journal article using the The Knee citation format.

Here’s a The Knee journal citation example using placeholders:
[1]
Author1 LastnameAF, Author3 LastnameAF. Title. Container 2000;Volume:pages Used. https://doi.org/DOI.
So if we want to reference this scientific article: “Testing consumer preferences for iced-coffee: Does the drinking environment have any influence?” by C. Petit and J.M. Sieffermann in The Knee: