Formatting In-Text Citations and Quotation Marks

What citation elements do you include in your essay text?

• author's last name

• author's full name

• author's last name and the page number

• page number

Where do you place the in text citation in your sentence? 

• wherever you want 
• at the end of your sentence
• in the middle of the sentence
• right next to the info you cited in the sentence

What punctuation do you use to insert the in text citation? 

• parenthesis ()
• quotation marks " " 
• underlining __
• none 

If you already mention the author's name, do you have to list it again in your in text citation? 

• Yes
• No 
• Maybe, depends on a weird circumstance 

Smith, Snuffy. How to Go to College. Scribners, 2005. 234.

What from the citation goes inside these parenthesis?

According to Snuffy Smith, “The possibilities are endless” (________________).

• Smith 234

• Smith

• 234

• How to Go to College

College students often change their major several times before settling on an area of study because "the possibilities are endless" (273).

Is this in text citation correct?

• No, it needs the author's name

• Yes

 How to Go to College explains that “[students] really have no idea what opportunities exist in the big wide world. The possibilities are endless” (________________). 
What goes inside the parenthesis?

• Author's last name and page number
• author's full name
• page number
• source title

Smith, Snuffy. How to Go to College. Scribners, 2005. 234.

What from the citation goes inside these parenthesis?

How to Go to College explains: “[students] really have no idea what opportunities exist in the big wide world. The possibilities are endless” (________________).

• How to Go to College

• Smith 234

• Smith

• 234

How to Go to College is an important book. “[Students] really have no idea what opportunities exist in the big wide world. The possibilities are endless.”

• This is good.

• Quote bomb.

College students often change their major several times before settling on an area of study. “The possibilities are endless” (Smith 234).

Is this in text citation correct?

• This is good.

• Quote bomb.