Parenthetical Citation Practice

Parenthetical Citation Practice

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Book

If you use information and know the author and page number, you need to put both of those in your parethetical ciation.

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Title: The Amazing Mrs. Parks

Author: Jennifer Gonzalez

Page number with information: 11​

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Sentence sentence sentence sentence (Gonzalez 11).​

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Article with Author

When you use information from an article ​and you know the author but there is no page number, you include only the author's name in the parenthesis.

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Article Title: "A Nation Remembers​ Rosa Parks"

Author: Amanda Vela

Page number: Unknown​

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Sentence sentence sentence sentence sentence (Vela).​

Article with No Author

If you are using information from an article with no author, use the title WITH the quotation marks. Use the page number if you know it; skip if you don't.

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Article title: "A Brave Act"

Author: Unknown

Page Number: 2

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​Sentence sentence sentence sentence sentence ("A Brave Act" 2).