In-text citations include the last name of the author followed by the page number in parentheses.

One Author 

  • Example: "First find out what you are capable of, then decide who you are" (Westover 230). 

Two Authors 

  • Example: “Turning pain into power, turning despair into hope. One thing I learned without a doubt: a system doesn’t work just because it’s there” (Burton and Lynn 277).

Three or more Authors 

  • Example: "This type of strong, committed leadership is critical to the process of institutional transformation" (Miller et al. 26).

One Author 

  • Example: Westover explained, "First find out what you are capable of, then decide who you are" (230). 

Two Authors 

  • Example: Burton and Lynn explained, "Turning pain into power, turning despair into hope. One thing I learned without a doubt: a system doesn’t work just because it’s there” (277). 

Three or more Authors 

  • Example: Miller et al. explained, "This type of strong, committed leadership is critical to the process of institutional transformation" (26). 

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:

  • (Cell Biology 12)
  • ("Artificial Intelligence" 17)
  • (Molecular Life Sciences 32)

When you quote from electronic sources that do not provide page numbers (like Web pages), cite the author name only.

  • Example: “The man who has no imagination has no wings” (Ali). 

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.

  • Examples: (Enriquez 42; Sanchez 71).

If you cite from two or more works by the same author, include the title or a shorted form of the title.

  • Example: “America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams” (Obama, Audacity of Hope, 269).

If two or more authors in your Works Cited share the same last name, add their first initial.

  • Example: “You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen” (M Obama, 366).

Include a full in-text citation with the author name and page number (if there is one).

  • Example: Mother-infant attachment became a leading topic of developmental research following the publication of John Bowlby's studies (Hunt 65).

If the paraphrased information/idea is from several pages, include them. For example:

  • Mother-infant attachment became a leading topic of developmental research following the publication of John Bowlby's studies (Hunt 50, 55, 65-71).