In-Text Citation | 1 min

In-text citations include the first element of the full citation (usually the author's last name) and the page number you are citing from. If there is no author, your in-text citation refers to the first piece of information listed in the full citation of your Works Cited page, usually an abbreviated source title. If there is no page number, just skip that part.

Examples

One author: "Here's a direct quote" (Naess 25). Two authors: This is a paraphrase (Rodgers and Hammerstein 100).

Three or more authors: This is the sentence (Hamilton et al. 498). No Author and no page number: This is the sentence ("Sustainable Management"). Author mentioned in the sentence: In their study, Miller and Jones found that citations are important (63). Multiple sources cited: Several researchers have found that citations are important (Derwing et al. 246; Thomas 15).

Using a citation generator?

Citation management programs like Refworks Links to an external site. can provide in-text citations (as well as full citations for a Works Cited). In fact, Refworks can put those citations directly in your paper in Microsoft Word or Google Docs, but you may need to edit in-text citations if you use the author's name in the sentence, if you cite multiple sources in the same sentence, or if you cite the same study multiple times.