English 12:7.22.3 Lesson: Documenting Sources: In-Text Citations

What goes in a standard in-text citation?

- Page number - author's last name

Explain why every citation (direct and indirect) must have a lead-in.

Because this is where you give the information of where you have gotten this quote so that the reader knows that you had gotten this information from an outside source and that it is not your own.

Under what circumstances do you put the end punctuation inside the quotation marks?

Only if the quote has an exclamation mark or a question mark do you include the punctuation inside the the quotation mark and then at the end you include a period.

Is this indirect citation punctuated correctly? The Best Organization suggests that everyone should know how to do in-text citations (The Best Organization 12).

yes

You only use in-text citations for direct quotes.

false

What is the exception to putting the author, organization, or title in the parenthetical citation?

if you have it in a close lead-in

Is this direct quotation punctuated correctly? The Best Organization suggests, "You really do need to know how to make proper in-text citations." (The Best Organization 12)

no

Which of the following would you not likely find in a lead-in?

the publisher

The majority of the citations in your paper should be indirect citations.

true

You only use quotation marks around direct quotes.

true

If the author's last name is not available, what goes in the parenthetical citation?

whatever I alphabetized by on the works cited page