Basics
In text citations are the citations that are found in the text of your paper or project. Generally the rules are:
- How your citation appears depends on the source type (image, newspaper, journal etc.)
- Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. If your Works cited page just has the title you are referring to, and no author, you would just put the title in the in text citation.
for example, the picture we cited earlier would appear like this in the in text citation:
Antoine Lavivior created many apparatuses to perform chemical experiments (Antoine Lavoisier’s apparatus for synthesizing water from hydrogen).
with the entry on works cited page appearing as:
Antoine Lavoisier’s apparatus for synthesizing water from hydrogen. 1881. Oxford Science Archive, Oxford. https://www.alamy.com/antoine-lavoisiers-apparatus-for-synthesizing-water-from-hydrogen-image8384107.html
- Page numbers should be included in the in text citation when available
For example if you were citing your textbook it would appear as the following:
As is stated, “A compound is a combinations of two or more different elements that are combined chemically” (Dingrando, 71).
Alternatively if you attribute the author in the sentence you can simply put the page number at the end for example:
Dingrando states, “A compound is a combinations of two or more different elements that are combined chemically”(71).
With the entry on the works cited page appearing as:
Dingrando, Laurel, et al. Chemistry: Matter and Change. Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2005.
- Periods should appear after the close of the parentheses ALWAYS.
