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In Text Citations

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name

Class

Date

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

Maybe, depends on a weird circumstance

What happens if your source does not have a page number? Most websites do not after all!

Make up a page number

Put "NO PAGE NUMBER"

leave it off

Make it Page 1

What happens if your source does not have an author listed?

Make one up

Leave it off, putting the page number only

Use the source title instead

Use your teacher's name

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. “The possibilities are endless” (234).
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

10.

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

What from the citation goes inside these parenthesis?

How to Go to College explains that “[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

11.

How to Go to College explains that “[students] really have no idea what opportunities exist in the big wide world. The possibilities are endless.”
How do I add an in text citation to this?

author's full name in the sentence

author's last name and page number in parenthesis

page number in quotation marks

author's last name and page number underlined

12.

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?

yes

13.

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?

Yes

No, it needs parenthesis

14.

“Most workplaces don’t have that many parties,” so academics are more important to consider than partying when selecting a college (Abner 33).
Is this in text citation correct?

Yes

15.

Yokum Abner writes that, “Most workplaces don’t have that many parties,” so academics are more important to consider than partying when selecting a college (33).

Is this in text citation correct?

Yes

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In Text Citations

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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