Citation Style for Scientific Text (Part 1)

n order for the scientists and the academia to be able to communicate the research findings in a scientific, reliable, and consistent way, and in order to avoid plagiarism, a number of scientific guides for writing are published throughout the world. Among them, the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, as one of the most commonly used guides, suggests a specific style for reference citations in texts and reference lists at the end of the texts. In this article the most common types of reference citations used in research articles are introduced. Finally we discuss the need for developing a guide for scientific style of writing in Farsi (i.e., Persian language).