How do you correctly cite?
Citing information in the text of an essay can be very tricky. In MLA format in-text citations are inserted in the body of your research paper. The area everyone knows to put an in-text citation is when you are quoting someone directly. When you are doing long quotes it should look like the following example:
Right here will be the paragraph/essay you should be writing about. Once you want to start your quotation you put a colon as so:
Then right here you start your long quote. This quote must be more than four lines for it to be considered a long quotation! Then after you finish your long quotation you will do an in-text citation like the following. (Author Last Name, p.g. number)
When you are doing an in-text citation for a short quote all you have to do is the following:
The sentence that starts your sentence is right here and your leading into your quote now you quote “This is your quote that relates to your sentence” (Author Last Name, p.g. number)
These are a few examples of how you should quote in-text citations. There are many other areas that you should do in-text citations. Such as paraphrasing, paraphrasing from multiple pages, single phrases, or repeated use of sources. Matter of fact there is more than those but here I choose to hit the two major ways to quote in-text citation.
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