1. If you don’t give credit to a source, you are plagiarizing.
How to correctly cite your sources in a research paper: A guide to parenthetical citations and writing a Works Cited page.
If you don’t give credit to a source, you are plagiarizing.

2. Your citation / quotation:
Is suppose to strengthen your paper. You are picking a quotation that supports your topic.
If you are stating that the Great Depression was an important historical event in the 1930s, then you should search for a quote that states this.
If you are saying that the Hank Aaron was the most influential athlete of his time, find a quote that says this.
This is a parenthetical citation – Using another person’s thoughts/words to support your idea.

3. Parenthetical citations from Ask Me No Questions and To Kill a Mockingbird:
“If you know how to breathe, you can get through anything” (Budhos 116).
“Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 119).

4. After you excerpt a quotation, you write the author’s name and page # in parenthesis.
Or you can be fancy and say: According to Atticus in Harper Lee’s novel, “it is a sin to kill a mockingbird” (119).
There will be cases when there are NO AUTHORS and/or NO PAGE NUMBERS such as a website citation. We will discuss this later.

5. Parenthetical citation = Quotation from a source
Always give credit for any idea, information, or actual words that you get from another source.
A parenthetical citation is citing a quotation from a book, website, encyclopedia, etc, and using it in your paper.

6. In a parenthetical citation, always include the author and page number at the end of a sentence in which you use that source. The period goes after the parentheses.
EXAMPLE: Dallas Winston would do anything for his friend Johnny. In chapter 8 he states, “we gotta get even with the Socs. For Johnny” (Hinton 125).

7. Citations with an Author
PRINT SOURCE: Make sure you write the author’s last name and page number.
“quotation” (Milano 23).
ONLINE SOURCE: (author’s last name)
(Don’t ever write the web address in parenthesis)

8. Without an Author
Reference Books – (no author) DO NOT USE EDITOR’S NAME –
Instead, shorten the title of the article and italicize it.
Website without an author – Do the same as above!

9. I.C.E Citation – Put quotation marks around the source’s words
Introduce the citation using a phrase such as:
FOR EXAMPLE, IN FACT, IT HAS BEEN PROVEN
Citation – Put quotation marks around the source’s words
Explain – You must then explain what the quote means and connect it to your ideas.