1. Parenthetical Citation Practice Exercises

2. Parenthetical Citation MLA (Modern Language Association) format for crediting the source It is very important to follow the correct format! It is very simple! Follow directions! Do not make silly mistakes!!!

3. Parenthetical Citation Place author’s last name and page number within parentheses at the end of a sentence. The period goes after the parentheses, not before. Ex. Here are the last few words in your sentence (Smith 97). Notice that I did not put a comma, p., #, or anything else before the page number.

4. Parenthetical Citation If there is no author, take first few words of the article and place in ( ). Be sure to put in quotation marks. If there are no page numbers, don’t worry about them. Article title - “Stopping the flow of drugs” Ex. Here are the last few words in your sentence (“Stopping”).

5. You try it!!! Youakim, Sami. "Work Related Asthma." American Family Physician. (2001); 184-92. MasterFile Premier. 12 Jan. 2002. You are taking a note from page 184. What would go in the parentheses?

6. You try it!!! Lancashire, Ian. "Searching for Arthur." Arthuriana. 2002. Web.15 May 2002. What would go in the parentheses?

7. You try it !!! Smith, John. The Night of the Attack. New York: Mac Loughton, 1987. Print. You are taking a note from page 257. What would go in the parentheses?

8. You try it!!! “Searching for Bobby Fisher”. USA Today. 24.134 (1978): 98. Print. What would go in the parentheses?

9. You try it!!! Two to three authors Pryor, Karen, and Kenneth S. Norris. Dolphin Societies: Discoveries and Puzzles. Berkley: U of California P, 1991. Print. You are taking a note from page 234. What would go in the parentheses?

10. You try it!!! Four of more authors McFarlan, Donald, et al., The Guiness Book of Records 1992. New York: Facts on File, 1991. Print. You are taking a note from page 567. What would go in the parentheses?

11. Important notes! When you change sources you stop and credit the previous source. This may occur after one sentence, several sentences, or an entire paragraph. There is no need to put after every sentence unless each comes from another source. If several sentences come from the same source but different pages, only put the page number in the parentheses. Ex. (Smith 97). Then you write another sentence (99). Then you write another(103).

12. You try it!!! Take your first note card and create the correct parenthetical citation for it. Show it to me!