Discipline-Specific Citation Styles
Research Design
Most Common Methods
Research Approach
100

Education research uses this style to report findings

What is APA?

100
This type of research analyzes the relationships between variables.
What is quantitative research?
100

Observations of a specific group to determine how and why a situation exists within that group.

What is Case Study research?
100

This type of approach attempts to text or prove a hypothesis.

What is a deductive approach

200

The citation style used by historians.

What is Chicago?

200

Researchers engaging in ethnographic studies may design interviews or surveys designed to gather this kind of data from participants.

What is qualitative data?

200

Participatory research which includes problem identification, solution, solution review

What is Action Research?

200

Research that is designed to open up further questions is considered to be ___.

What is exploratory?

300

Articles published in the Methods of Information in Medicine are likely to use this type of citation style.

What is AMA?

300
Researchers attempting to gather data regarding the experimental research they are conducting would consider their research data ___.

What is primary data?

300

Researchers seek patterns in data collected by many existing studies and formulate principals.

What is Meta-Analysis?

300

A research project that uses Case Study Research may use this type of approach to frame the research question

What is inductive reasoning?

400

A researcher who wants to publish a journal article regarding cultural studies will most likely use this type of citation style.

What is MLA?

400

Research that brings into question a research project's ___ choices would require an IRB to ensure that the researcher's methodology is not endangering humans.

What is ethical choices?

400

Manipulation of variables in populations without the benefit of random assignment or control group.

What is quasi-experimental?

400

Narrative, Ethnographic, and Descriptive researcher tend to be guided by this overall paradigm or philosophy.

What is phenomenology?

500

The student version of The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) designed for high school and college students that need to write papers that are not intended for publication

What is the Turabian citation style?

500

Reseach's design that includes both qualitative and quantitative data is called this.

What is mixed methods?

500

Structured research with isolated variables and controls.

What is True Experimental Research?
500

Experimental research, guided by a deductive approach, will yield results that include hard data, which demonstrates this type of research philosophy.

What is positivism?