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In-Text Citation

In-Text Citation. Poetry Analysis Project English 3 Honors Ms. Fischer. Basic in-text citation rules. In MLA style, referring to the works of others in your text is done by using what is known as parenthetical, or in-text, citation .

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In-Text Citation

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  1. In-Text Citation Poetry Analysis Project English 3 Honors Ms. Fischer

  2. Basic in-text citation rules In MLA style, referring to the works of others in your text is done by using what is known as parenthetical, or in-text, citation. This method involves placing relevant source information in parentheses after a quote or a paraphrase.

  3. General Guidelines • The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends • (1.) upon the source medium (e.g. Print, Web, DVD) and • (2.) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited (bibliography) page. • Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information in the Bibliography. • More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text, must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Bibliography.

  4. In-text citations: Author-page style • The author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. • Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).

  5. In-text citations: Author-page style • The author's name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. • Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263). • (Author’s name doesn’t need to be in the in-text citation since his name was mentioned in the paraphrase.) This is also called a SIGNAL WORD; if you put a signal word or phrase in your quote/paraphrase, you need to list only the page number.

  6. In the Bibliography… Bibliography Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. London: Oxford U.P., 1967. Print.

  7. Citing non-print or sources from the Internet Most of you will be using only Internet sources for this analysis; therefore, these next few slides are important as the rules change a little bit. With more and more scholarly work being posted on the Internet, you may have to cite research you have completed in virtual environments.

  8. Citing non-print or Internet Sources Sometimes writers are confused with how to craft parenthetical citations for electronic sources because of the absence of page numbers, but often, these sorts of entries do not require any sort of parenthetical citation at all. For electronic and Internet sources, follow the following guidelines…

  9. Guidelines for non-print or Internet Sources! • Include in the text the first item that appears in the entry in your Bibliography that corresponds to the citation (e.g. author name, article name, website name, film name). • You do not need to give paragraph numbers or page numbers based on your Web browser’s print preview function. • Unless you must list the Web site name in the signal phrase in order to get the reader to the appropriate entry, do not include URLs in-text. • Only provide partial URLs such as when the name of the site includes, for example, a domain name, like CNN.com or Forbes.com as opposed to writing out http://www.cnn.com or http://www.forbes.com.

  10. Example #1 of In-Text Citation for Internet Sources One online film critic stated that Fitzcarraldo is "...a beautiful and terrifying critique of obsession and colonialism" (Garcia, “Herzog: a Life”). In this example, the writer has chosen not to include the author’s name in-text; however, two entries from the same author appear on the Bibliography. Thus, the writer includes both the author’s last name and the article title in the parenthetical citation in order to lead the reader to the appropriate entry in the Bibliography.

  11. Example #2 of In-Text Citation for Internet Sources The Purdue OWL is accessed by millions of users every year. Its "MLA Formatting and Style Guide" is one of the most popular resources (Stolley et al). In this example, “Stolley et al.” in the parenthetical citation gives the reader an author name followed by the abbreviation “et al.,” meaning, “and others,” for the article “MLA Formatting and Style Guide.”

  12. Here’s the Bibliography for the examples just given. Garcia, Elizabeth. “De Mille: Too Much?." Online Film Critics Corner. The Film School of New Hampshire, 8 Sept 2004. Web. 8 Jan. 2009. Garcia, Elizabeth. "Herzog: a Life." Online Film Critics Corner. The Film School of New Hampshire, 2 May 2002. Web. 8 Jan. 2009. Stolley, Karl, et al. "MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The OWL at Purdue. 10 May 2006. Purdue University Writing Lab. 12 May 2006.

  13. Online sources with a signal phrase • Online film critic Miguel Herzog stated that Fitzcarraldo is "...a beautiful and terrifying critique of obsession and colonialism" (“Herzog: a Life”). • The name doesn’t need to be included in the citation, but since more than one work was used by this author, the title still needs to be included.

  14. Online sources with a signal phrase According to Kevin Larimer of Poets and Writers, “…self-publishing has soared as a viable and, in many cases, preferable option for independent-minded authors.” In this example, only one article by Larimer appears in the Bibliography, and since a signal phrase (his name) was used, no additional in-text citation is needed. Note the ellipses before the quoted material; this indicates that there was more to this quote, but the rest was left out for the purpose of the paper.

  15. Online Sources with no authors • More often than not, the sources you access online will not provide the names of any authors. • So what do you do?

  16. In-text citation for a source without an author Kish, once an English teacher, “has created one hundred illustrations for (Joseph) Conrad’s inimitable novel, each inspired by Conrad’s original text.” (“The Written Image: Heart of Darkness) Note that “Joseph” appears in parentheses; this is because, in the original quote, his name doesn’t appear at all.

  17. Bibliography listing for no-author source “The Written Image: Heart of Darkness.” Poets and Writers. Nov/Dec 2013. Web. 11 Nov 2013.

  18. Any Questions (so far)

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