In-text Citations, Explained
In-text Citations, Explained
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Your Works Cited (or Bibliography) tells the reader what books and websites you used for your research project, but it doesn't tell the reader where in your project you used each source, or what part of the source you used. It's the in-text citation's job to do that.
Let's say, for example, that I am writing a research report about the American Revolution and I have just found a useful quote that I want to use from this book, by Ben Thompson. After including the quote and using quotation marks, I would then put in my in-text citation. Here's what that would look like:
Let's say, for example, that I am writing a research report about the American Revolution and I have just found a useful quote that I want to use from this book, by Ben Thompson. After including the quote and using quotation marks, I would then put in my in-text citation. Here's what that would look like:
The plan worked, and with "just 150 men and only a few gunshots, George Rogers Clark captured from the British the territories that would eventually become the states of Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana" (Thompson 245). This added territory would...
In the above example, the part taken from Thompson's book is everything in red-brown, while everything in green are the parts that you need to add--the quotation marks and the in-text citation. The quotation marks tell the reader which words are yours and which words came from Thompson, and the in-text citation tells the reader that the quote came from page 245 of Thompson's book.
In my Works Cited, this is how I would list Ben Thompson's book:
Thompson, Ben. Guts & Glory: the American Revolution. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Here is a second example, this time from a website:
...by 1915. "He was convinced of the merits of general relativity because it allowed for a more accurate prediction of planetary orbits around the sun," and also helped make sense of gravity ("Albert Einstein").
In this example, the information taken from the website is everything in red-brown and again everything in green are the parts you need to add--quotation marks and the in-text citation. This time, because there was no author stated on the website, you can simply use the title of the webpage. Websites don't normally have page numbers, so that's all you have to do.
In my Works Cited, this is how I would list that website:
"Albert Einstein." Biography, A & E Television Networks, 2022, www.biography.com/scientist/albert-einstein#awesm=~oAWI8tT40sq2BP. Accessed 12 March, 2022.
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