How the hell do you properly do it!? My damn teacher can't make up his mind or respond to emails.

Last time I looked online it was simply the authors name after the quote, no page numbers or anything. Any body got any idea?

4/28/2007 11:51:26 AM

Author's name and page numbers for multiple authors. If you're only citing one work you can put just page numbers.

4/28/2007 12:09:37 PM

It has been a while since I did these, but if the journal article/paper is written by John Smith in 1998...the in text citation should be (Smith 1998).
If there is more than 1 author, you would put (Smith et al. 1998)

And those citations could after ANY information that was taken from another source, not just quotations.

4/28/2007 12:09:52 PM

or you could look at the library site. they will give you correct citations.


or citationmachine.net

4/28/2007 12:41:48 PM

You only have to include enough information to identify the text and the page number.

Example:

Jake Morgan claims that The Wolf Web is the greatest website known to man (123).

Assuming that your bibliography contains only one source by Jake Morgan, then only the page number is required because you can clearly identify the source of the quote using the sentence and the page number.

The Wolf Web is the greatest website known to man (Morgan 123).

Here you need the author's name in addition to the page number because the sentence doesn't contain sufficient information to identify the source on its own.

Jake Morgan claims that The Wolf Web is the greatest website known to man (Wolf 123).

If the bibliography contains multiple sources by Jake Morgan, then clarify which source in the parenthetical documentation. Only include enough of the title to clearly identify the text--it is not neccessary to include the entire title in the parenthetical documentation.

In general, your parenthetical documentation should include just enough information that the reader can easily identify the source using the bibliography.

4/28/2007 1:26:28 PM

just do end notes or foot notes

its cleaner

4/28/2007 2:45:25 PM

So what about for poetry. Profesor finally emailed me back but all he said was "theres a difference between poetry and prose" look it up in the handbook. Which I would if I had the damn thing. Thanks for any advice you can offer.

4/28/2007 4:19:24 PM

use line numbers for citing poems

[Edited on April 28, 2007 at 5:44 PM. Reason : .]

4/28/2007 5:44:00 PM