In Text Citations Review

In-Text Citations

1. Print Sources (Book, Magazine, Newspaper). Author’s last name and page number:

Example: (Potok 40).

2. Interview. Use the last name of person interviewed Example: (Wiggins).

3. Website- If the author is known, then the author is listed. If the author is unknown, then cite with the title of the article. If there is no author or article, then use the underlined title of the website (not the address). Keep in mind that if there is no author to the website, then how reliable is it?

Examples: Author: (Jenkins) Title of article: (“Saddened by Closure of Lollapalooza”) Website: (Italian Food).

4. Quotes that come from more than one page (You might have a quote that begins at the bottom of page 77 and finishes at the top of page 78). Use author’s name and pages separated by a hyphen.

Examples: (Reilly 77-78). (Fouts 125-127).

5. Quotes from a book by more than one author. Use the last name of the first person listed on the cover. Note this is similar to the format for Works Cited.

6. What if I have quotes by the same author from different books? Use author’s name then the first few words of the title (don’t forget to underline) then the page numbers.

Example: Julie wants to quote William Shakespeare from both Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Hamlet 57). (Shakespeare Much Ado 89).

7. A Survey or an Experiment???? (Survey). (Experiment).

8. When all else fails, in parentheses, place the first thing that you have on your Works Cited and then the page number.

Very Important: Citation is placed after the sentence in which source material is quoted or paraphrased Remember, even if your paraphrase (i.e., use your own words) you STILL MUST CITE YOUR SOURCE!!!

Very Important: REMEMBER: IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT

CITING A SOURCE THAT IS MORE COMPLEX THAN THE EXAMPLES ABOVE,

THEN CHECK THE MLA HANDBOOK, CHECK www. http://owl.english.purdue.edu