Francisco's Responses in WyzAnt Answers

if you can use IEEE or ACM style, look at this http://www.ieee.org/documents/ieeecitationref.pdf

While there are many citations styles, I prefer the one in the scientific community. Specially, the one most common seen in the IEEE and ACM Papers. This is the citation with numbers. Simple and to the point. 

For example: 

The study of ____ has been shown to be successful when using 3D Interfaces[4,6]. For more information, see [1-3] 

You can also do (if more than three authors) In Brown et el.[5], we can see.... 

or if is two, In Brown and Smith[5], we can see ....

To be honest, any other style is a waster of paper and ink. Also a waste of bytes, if you ask me. For example, say you only have 4 pages to express your idea, with graphs and formulas... do you want to spend time using MLA? or any other style that looks like MLA? 

Also, if you are writing academic papers, use LATEX. 

Thanks,
F.