Citations

Citations

When you include information from a source, whether it is a direct quotation OR paraphrased, you must include an in-text citation. Here’s how you do it:

When you know the author:

(author’s last name page number). — (Bradley 210).

When you have already indicated the author’s name:

According to Mary Beth Bradley, “Giving proper credit to authors is a necessity” (210).

*Note that the period comes AFTER the bracket.

When you do not know the author’s name:

According to The Owl at Purdue, ” When a source has no known author, use a shortened title of the work instead of an author name. Place the title in quotation marks if it’s a short work (such as an article) or italicize it if it’s a longer work (e.g. plays, books, television shows, entire Web sites) and provide a page number” (MLA In-Text Citations).

When the work is published by an organization:

Use the name of the organization, followed by the page number (Tourism PEI 36).