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New Castle Area High School: When to Cite

When to cite

In text citations

A typical APA in-text citation is the last name of the author(s) and the year the source was published. You put the in-text citation between the last word of the sentence and the period.
I’m writing a paper and using a source (Oakleaf, 2009).
If you are quoting or paraphrasing a source, you should also include the page that you are referencing. The citation should be immediately following the quote or paraphrase.
(Jones, 1998, p. 199).
In APA you are welcome to introduce a source in the body of your text. This can be especially useful if you will be citing ideas in the text for several sentences.
According to Locke (1999), the Rocky Horror Picture Show amassed a cult following in part, because of how it confronted the idea of performance in everyday life (Locke, 1999).
If you are citing multiple sources in one sentence, join author-date citations with semicolons in the order that they would appear in your reference list.
(Goldstein & Barrow, 2015; Lambert, 2011; Smith, 1998; Smith, 2004).
If a work has less than five authors, list them all in the order they are listed on the paper. Use an & before the last author.
(Higgledy, Biggledy & Boo, 1942).
If a work has more than five authors, list the first author's name and then et al.
(Primo et al., 2007).

MLA Citations

Citation for an Article

MLA:

Lastname, Firstname. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical, vol. #, no. #, year, pp. 595-600.

 

Swanson, Elizabeth, et al. “A Synthesis and Meta-Analysis of Reading Interventions Using Social Studies Content for Students with Learning Disabilities.” Journal of Learning Disabilities, vol. 47, no. 2, 2014, pp. 178–95.

 

For a Book Chapter

MLA:

Last name, First name. "Title of Chapter." Title of Book, edited by Editor's Name(s), Publisher, Year, Page range of entry.

 

Eberhard, John. “Sustainability and Neuroscience.” Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture : Impacts on Health, edited by Stamatina Rassia, Springer, 2012, 3-6.

 

For a Book

MLA:

Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.

 

Tillis, Antonio D. Manuel Zapata Olivella and the "Darkening" of Latin American Literature. University of Missouri Press, 2005.