In-text citations include the last name of the author followed by the page number in parentheses.
One Author
Two Authors
Three or more Authors
One Author
Two Authors
Three or more Authors
If no author listed use the first few words of the title. Don’t count initial articles like “A”, “An”, or “The”.
If the title in the Works Cited list is in italics, italicize the words from the title in the in-text citation.
If the title in the Works Cited list is in quotation marks, put quotation marks around the words from the title in the in-text citation.
Examples:
When you quote from electronic sources that do not provide page numbers (like Web pages), cite the author name only.
If you would like to cite more than one source within the same in-text citation, simply record the in-text citations as normal and separate them with a semi-colon.
If you cite from two or more works by the same author, include the title or a shorted form of the title.
If two or more authors in your Works Cited share the same last name, add their first initial.
Include a full in-text citation with the author name and page number (if there is one).
If the paraphrased information/idea is from several pages, include them. For example: