Citations follow certain rules for listing their specific parts; these rules vary according to the style manual that you use.
The style manual you will most often use in composition courses is the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. For courses in Allied Health and some Behavioral Science courses the required style manual will be the APA manual.
Citations can be located in the text of your report for exact quotations, and at the end of your work, to list all the sources used in the project.
One section of the MLA and APA handbooks illustrate how to arrange information for the works cited page at the end of your work. Another section shows you how to document quotations where you use them in your text
The materials you use in writing your research report vary considerably, as does the way you will need to cite them.How you list a book will vary from how you list an article in a magazine. In fact, how you list a book by one author will differ from how you list a book by two or more authors.
You will need to carefully identify the type of resource you have used, then find the relevant example in the MLA or APA style manual. You will need to follow the example exactly, including punctuation marks, like periods, as well as the number of spaces between the parts.