Chapter 54 In-text Citations

What is the correct answer? What is the correct way to format parenthetical documentation for a citation when referencing an author's work in a sentence?

• Put the date in parentheses after the author's last name, unless the year is mentioned in the sentence. Put any page number(s) you're including in parentheses after the quotation, paraphrase, or summary. Parenthetical documentation should come before the period at the end of the sentence and after any quotation marks.

• Put the year in parentheses after the author's last name, regardless of whether the year is mentioned in the sentence. Put any page number(s) you're including in parentheses before the quotation, paraphrase, or summary. Parenthetical documentation should come after the period at the end of the sentence and before any quotation marks.

• Put the author's initials in parentheses after the publication year, unless the year is mentioned in the sentence. Put any page number(s) you're including in parentheses before the quotation, paraphrase, or summary. Parenthetical documentation should come before the quotation marks and after the period at the end of the sentence.

• Put the publication year in parentheses after the author's first name, unless the year is mentioned in the sentence. Put any page number(s) you're including in parentheses before the quotation, paraphrase, or summary. Parenthetical documentation should come after the quotation marks and before the period at the end of the sentence.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the correct format for citing a source in a sentence when the author is not mentioned in a signal phrase?

• (John Adams, 2001, p. 18)

• "the hands of a man accustomed to pruning his own trees, cutting his own hay, and splitting his own firewood" (McCullough, 2001, p. 18)

• John Adams had “the hands of a man accustomed to pruning his own trees, cutting his own hay, and splitting his own firewood” (Smith, 2001, p. 18)

• "the hands of a man accustomed to pruning his own trees, cutting his own hay, and splitting his own firewood" (Adams, 2001, p. 18)

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of the following is the correct way to format a citation for the given text for two authors?

• Carlson and Ventura (1990) wanted to introduce Julio Cortázar, Marjorie Agosín, and other Latin American writers to an audience of English-speaking adolescents (p. v).

• Carlson & Ventura (1990) wanted to introduce Julio Cortázar, Marjorie Agosín, and other Latin American writers to an audience of English-speaking adolescents (p. v).

• Carlson and Ventura (1990) wanted to introduce Julio Cortázar, Marjorie Agosín, and other Latin American writers to an audience of English-speaking adolescents (p. v).

• Carlson & Ventura (1990) wanted to introduce Julio Cortázar, Marjorie Agosín, and other Latin American writers to an audience of English-speaking adolescents (p. v).

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the correct way to refer to a work by three or more contributors, according to the APA citation style?

• Name only the first author followed by "et al."

• Use the Latin phrase "et cetera."

• Include the initials of all contributors.

• Name all the authors.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which approach should be followed when citing a source with an organization or government as the author, where the organization name has a familiar abbreviation?

• Use the full name and the abbreviation the first time you cite the source, and in subsequent references, use only the abbreviation.

• Use neither the full name nor the abbreviation when citing the source.

• Use only the abbreviation every time you cite the source.

• Always use the full name of the organization.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the correct way to format the citation of an article titled "Every Patient's Nightmare" in a reference list?

• Use quotation marks for the title

• Do not include the title in the reference list

• Use both italics and quotation marks for the title

• Italicize the title

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the correct way to cite a source that was quoted in another source, such as in the example: "Modern Standard Arabic was expected to serve as the 'moral glue' holding the Arab world together (Choueri, 2000, as cited in Walters, 2019, p. 475)"?

• "as cited in Choueri, 2000"

• "use quotation marks around the entire citation"

• "as cited in Walters, 2019"

• "without mentioning the original source"

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What should you include when referring to a specific part of a source without page numbers?

• "Line" followed by the line number.

• "Chapter" followed by the chapter number.

• "Location" followed by the location identifier.

• "Para." followed by the paragraph number.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9