Citing Sources in Research Papers: A Comprehensive Guide
Learn how to correctly cite sources in a research paper through parenthetical citations and creating a Works Cited page. Understand the importance of giving credit to sources to avoid plagiarism. The guide covers the use of quotations to strengthen your arguments, parenthetical citations from specific works, and the proper format for citing sources without authors or page numbers.
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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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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).
