The Research Process

1. Writing a Works Cited Page Parenthetical citations The Research Process

2. Works Cited • Must be arranged in alphabetical order. • Use the following website: • Easybib.com • Allows you to choose which type of source you used. • From there, use your source cards to enter information into the citation generator. • This website creates your Works Cited page for you!

3. Parenthetical Citations • Usually consists of an author’s name & page number. • Contains just enough information to help the reader locate the source in the Works Cited list at the end of your paper.

4. Example Parenthetical Citations • Basic citation • The Oklahoma migrants found “not a Promised Land but a man-blighted Eden” (Crockett 195). • Author’s last name + page # • Basic citation with the author’s name in the text • As H. Kelly Crockett has point out, the Oklahoma migrants found “not a Promised Land but a man-blighted Eden” (195). • Page # • Citation of multiple works by one author • The success of The Grapes of Wrath overshadowed Steinbeck’s later work (French, Companion ix). • Author’s last name + title + page #

5. Example Parenthetical Citations, cont. • Citation with the author’s name & title in text • In “The Commonplace and the Grotesque,” critic Edwin Bowdin points out that Steinbeck’s novel contains people who are “isolated & lonely & even grotesque” (16). • Page # • Citation of an anonymous work • One contributor wrote that the novel contained “a number of factual errors” (“Some Factual Errors” 647). • Title + page # • Citation of a work by two or three authors • Scientists are still debating whether the higher apes can by taught to create “sentences” in sign language (Kim et al. 427). • Author + et al. (Latin for “and others”) + page #

6. A few Reminders… • End punctuation goes after the citation. • There is no punctuation between information in parenthetical citations (for example, no comma between the author’s name & page #). • If you are unsure how you should format a particular in-text citation, ask for help!