Citing a Quote
What does it look like?
"In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen" (O'Brien 78).
What am I looking at?
After any quote OR paraphrased information, you need to tell us where that quote came from. This is where the citation comes in. See the (O'Brien 78). This little citation tells us that the quote came from a source written by someone whose last name was O'Brien. Furthermore, it tells us the page number upon which the quotation may be found.
This citation is short hand for the longer entry in your Works Cited page, which falls at the end of the essay. using this information, a reader can turn to the Works Cited page and find the entry written by someone whose last name is O'Brien. That entry contains the rest of the information necessary to find the original work if the reader would like to check your facts.
This citation is short hand for the longer entry in your Works Cited page, which falls at the end of the essay. using this information, a reader can turn to the Works Cited page and find the entry written by someone whose last name is O'Brien. That entry contains the rest of the information necessary to find the original work if the reader would like to check your facts.
What are the rules? |
How do I do it? |
Put a citation after any information that didn't spring from your own mind. The general rule is "when in doubt, cite." If there is information in your essay that you didn't think of, and you didn't cite it, you are guilty of plagiarism, which is a pretty big deal. Luckily, creating a citation is pretty easy. Here's what you do.
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The Connection
(O'Brien 78) leads us to:
Works Cited
O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction. New York: Broadway, 1998. Print.
Works Cited
O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction. New York: Broadway, 1998. Print.