African Identities Referencing Guide
(updated Mar 2024)


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How to do citations in African Identities style?

This is the Citationsy guide to African Identities 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 African Identities.

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How do you cite a book in the African Identities 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 African Identities? This is how.

Here’s an example book citation in African Identities using placeholders:
Last Name, F. N. (2000). Title (E. F. N. Editor Last Name, Ed.; Edition). Publisher.
So if we want to cite, for example, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou we’d do so like this:
African Identities citation:
Angelou, M. (1969). I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1st ed.). Random House.
And an in-text citation book citation in African Identities looks like this: (Angelou, 1969)


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How to reference a journal article in the African Identities citation style?

How do you cite scientific papers in African Identities format?

Do you need help referencing or citing a research paper in African Identities? Here’s how

Here’s a African Identities journal citation example using placeholders:
Author1 LastnameA. F., & Author3 LastnameA. F. (2000). Title. Container, Volume(Issue), 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 African Identities: