When you are writing a research paper “you must indicate to your readers not only what works you used in writing the paper but also exactly what you derived from each source and exactly where in the work you found the material” (Gibaldi 204). So wherever you use in your assignments another person’s words or ideas you must provide the appropriate information using parenthetical or in-text citations. Parenthetical citations lead your readers to the Works Cited list which is located at the end of your document.
Print Sources
In print resources like books, magazines, or journals the author (s) last name (s) and the specific page number (s) identify your source.
For example we have the book
Farkas, Meredith. Social Software in Libraries. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2007.
and you selected to use a sentence from this book in your assignment and it is from page 179.
There are two ways you can write the quotation.
In the first way you open a quote, write down the sentence, close the quote, leave one space and in the parenthesis you write the surname of the author, again leave one space, write down the page number and close the parenthesis.
“We are becoming an increasingly mobile society, where people are able to access the web and communicate virtually no matter where they are” (Farkas 179).
The second way to cite a direct quote is to include the authors name in the sentence. For example:
According to Farkas “we are becoming an increasingly mobile society, where people are able to access the web and communicate virtually no matter where they are” (179).
In this case and since the name of the author is already mentioned in the text you just write in the parenthesis the page number.
Note: if you have a print source with two authors’ you use both authors, for example (Jacobson and Waugh 210).
Works cited
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1999.
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