When to Cite
These punctuation mark are used to insert words like pronouns into a quotation in order to more smoothly integrate source material into a sentence.
What are brackets?
The proper works cited citation format for a book.
What is:
Author Last name, First name. Title of Source. Publisher, Publication Date.
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This is the proper in-text citation format for an article with four authors named Ross Gellar, Monica Gellar, Rachel Green, and Joey Tribbiani.
(Gellar et al.)
The proper Works Cited entry for this book would look like...
Title: Eating the Dinosaur
Author: Chuck Klosterman
Publisher: Scribner
Date: 2009
What is:
Klosterman, Chuck. Eating the Dinosaur. Scribner, 2009.
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When integrating common knowledge into your essay, you do not need this.
What is citation?
The proper spacing, font, and font size used for MLA format.
What is double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 point font?
When paraphrasing from an article, this is the basic format for a correct in-text citation.
(author last name page number).
This is the usual location for end punctuation for a sentence with respect to in-line citations.
What is after the in-line citation?
You must do this when summarizing, paraphrasing, or quoting from a source.
What is cite the source?
This many lines or more of directly quoted material require block quote formatting.
What is four lines?
This is the proper format for the title of a scholarly journal.
What is italicized?
This punctuation mark is used when omitting parts of a quote (without changing the author's meaning).
What are ellipsis?
A generally known piece of information, like some people celebrate America's independence on the 4th of July, constitutes this.
What is common knowledge?
This is the correct formatting for an MLA heading.
What is:
Name
Professor Name
Class Name and #
Date
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These punctuation marks are not necessary when formatting a block quote.
What are quotation marks?
The following is an example of this citaiton style.
Shermer, M. (2015). "Here Be Zombies". Scientific American, 312, 83-83. Retrieved August 29, 2021, from https://www.jstor.org/stable/26046072.
What is APA citation style?
The scenario in which you use this specific format for in-text citations: (author name, "shortened article title" page number).
What is using multiple articles by the same author in my essay?
The correct way to format the title of a chapter or the title of a journal article.
What are quotation marks around the title?
End punctuation is located here when using block quotes.
Titles of books require this formatting.
What is italicizing?