In-text Citations and Signal Phrases

In-text Citations

Directing Readers to Where You Got Your Information From

Important!

Not only does citing your evidence give credit to where you got it from, but also, it prevents you from plagiarism!

In-Text Citations

What are in-text citations?

An in-text citation shows the reader where you got your information from by stating the AUTHOR or ARTICLE TITLE (whichever is available)

EXAMPLES:

(O'Brien)

("Does Free Community College Work?")

How do you create an in-text citation?

Steps

• Write your sentence with evidence (either directly quoted or paraphrased/summarized)

• Refer to the author's last name, or if there is no author, the article title (in quotation marks) If there is not author, nor a title, then you would use the shortened name of the website ("History Channel") ("American Battlefield Trust")

• Place this in parentheses ( )

• Put a period after the parentheses

Summary: In-text Citations

• place in parentheses ( )

• use the author's last name OR article title (if there is no listed author) OR shortened version of the website name

• For article titles and website names, place them in quotations " "

• Put a period outside the parentheses ( ).

Multiple Choice

Which option is a correct in-text citation?

• (Bob Smith)

• (Smith)

• (How to Argue)

Multiple Choice

Which option is a correct in-text citation?

• ("The Art of Arguing")

• (Izzy Smithston)

• (How to Catch Chickens)

Multiple Choice

Which option is a correct in-text citation?

• (Kemble)

• (Mr. Zeiset)

• (Why the A Team is Great)

Multiple Choice

Which sentence correctly uses an in-text citation (including punctuation)?

• The average American "eats nearly 2,000 pounds of food a year" (Mowery).

• The average American "eats nearly 2,000 pounds of food a year" (Mowery)

• The average American "eats nearly 2,000 pounds of food a year" Mowery.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence correctly uses an in-text citation (including punctuation)?

• Though it has different colors, "fruit loops are all the same flavor" (30 Outrageous Facts About Food You’ll Think Are Made Up)

• Though it has different colors, "fruit loops are all the same flavor" "30 Outrageous Facts About Food You’ll Think Are Made Up".

• Though it has different colors, "fruit loops are all the same flavor" ("30 Outrageous Facts About Food You’ll Think Are Made Up").

In-text Citations

• place in parentheses ( )

• use the author's last name OR article title (if there is no listed author)

• For article titles and website names, place them in quotations " "

• Put a period outside the parentheses ( ).

• EXAMPLES: (Walters) (Gehman) ("Pizza Facts You Never Knew") ("History Channel")

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Multiple Choice

Which sentence correctly uses a signal phrase (including punctuation)?

• According to some source, "sharks don't have bones."

• According to the article 12 Shark Facts that May Surprise You, "sharks don't have bones."

• According to the article "12 Shark Facts that May Surprise You," "sharks don't have bones."

Multiple Choice

You don't have to use an in-text citation when you write the author's idea in your own words (paraphrasing).

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Why do we cite our sources?

• To get an A on our assignment

• To show our reader where we got our information

• To use quotation marks

• To write our topic sentence

Multiple Select

What do we cite?

• Paraphrased information from your source

• Information that is directly quoted from a source

• summarized information that is not common knowledge

• everything including common knowledge

Multiple Choice

You put your in-text citation inside of...

• "quotation marks"

• (parentheses)

• [brackets]

• $dollar signs$

Multiple Choice

Pizza has been everywhere: "In 2001, pizza was delivered to the International Space Station" (Green 22).

• Correctly Cited including punctuation

• Incorrectly Cited

Multiple Choice

A book with page numbers written by Lori Ratliff...  Which citation is CORRECT?

• English rocks (Ratliff pg 14).

• English rocks (14 Ratliff).

• English rocks (Ratliff, 14).

• English rocks (Ratliff 14). 

Works Cited Page

• Last page of your essay

• Entries are alphabetized by author's last name

• Author. Title of Source. Publisher, Publication Date.

• Thompson, Hunter S. The Great Shark Hunt. Harper Collins, 1998, New York.

Work on IXL T 1 and T 2