EXPLORE Referencing Guide
(updated Oct 2023)

Last updated: Sun, Oct 01 2023 at 09:36am

How to do citations in EXPLORE style?

This is the Citationsy guide to EXPLORE 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 EXPLORE.

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How do you cite a book in the EXPLORE referencing style? (2023 Guide)

Books are written works or compositions that have been published, many of which might be in digital version. Here’s how to cite a book in EXPLORE

Here’s an example book citation in EXPLORE using placeholders:

Last Name FN. Title. Edition. (Editor Last Name EFN, ed.). 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:
EXPLORE citation:

Angelou M. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 1st ed. New York: Random House; 1969.

And an in-text citation book citation in EXPLORE looks like this: ¹

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How to reference a journal article in the EXPLORE citation style?

How do you cite scientific papers in EXPLORE format?

An EXPLORE citation for a journal article includes the author name(s), publication year, article title, journal name, volume and issue number, page range of the article, and a DOI (if available). Here’s how

Here’s a EXPLORE journal citation example using placeholders:

Author1 LastnameAF, Author3 LastnameAF. Title. Container. 2000;Volume(Issue):pages Used. doi: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 EXPLORE:

Petit C, Sieffermann J. Testing consumer preferences for iced-coffee: Does the drinking environment have any influence?. 2007;18(1):161-172. doi:10.1016/j.foodqual.2006.05.008

And an in-text citation would look like this: ¹

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How to cite a website in a paper in EXPLORE style?

Citing your sources is a necessary part of any research paper. To cite a website in EXPLORE this is what you need

Here’s an EXPLORE example website reference:

Author1 LastnameAF, Author2 LastnameAF. Title. https://www.example.com. Published January 1, 2000. Accessed October 3, 2023.

To reference the article located at this link:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/05/uselections20083
on The Guardian website:

Tran M. Barack Obama To Be America’s First Black President. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/05/uselections20083. Published November 5, 2008. Accessed October 3, 2023.

And an in-text citation would look like this: ¹

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How to cite a YouTube video EXPLORE in 2023

Have you discovered something while watching a Youtube channel or video and would like to know how to reference it in EXPLORE? Here’s how

Here’s a EXPLORE citation YouTube video example:

ChannelName. Title. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXX. Published January 1, 2000. Accessed October 3, 2023.

So how to cite a video EXPLORE?

Pixar. Pizza Clip — Inside Out. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W6rntBADUQ. Published June 3, 2015. Accessed October 3, 2023.

And an in-text video citation would look like this: ¹

How to cite a podcast using EXPLORE referencing style

Podcasts can be perfect sources of information for your research paper. They cover a wide range of topics you may want to address in your paper. Here’s how to cite them in EXPLORE

It is becoming more and more common to reference podcasts in essays or other school work.
Here’s how to reference a podcast it in EXPLORE.

Lastname F. Title. January 2000. http://www.example.com. Accessed October 3, 2023.

Podcast referencing example in EXPLORE using “This American Life” episode 640:

This American Life. 640: Five Women. March 2018. https://thisamericanlife.org/640/five-women. Accessed October 3, 2023.

And an in-text citation would look like this: ¹

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How to cite a piece of music or a song using EXPLORE referencing style?

Would you like to cite more songs in your essays and have no idea how to do it? No matter if you want to cite a record, lyrics to a song, or a whole song, here’s how to easily do it in EXPLORE

An example song citation in EXPLORE.

Lastname F. Song Title.; 2000. http://www.example.com. Accessed October 3, 2023.

Let‘s say we want to reference “Here Comes the Sun” off The Beatles “Abbey Road” album in EXPLORE:

The Beatles. Here Comes the Sun.; 1969. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/here-comes-the-sun/401186200?i=401187150. Accessed October 3, 2023.

And an in-text citation would look like this: ¹

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EXPLORE Referencing Guide (updated Oct 2023)

This is the Citationsy guide to EXPLORE 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 EXPLORE.