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Next, find some information in the article that's helpful to your paper.

Your

Paper

And here's the quote from your source

Things to note:

This makes it clear to your readers exactly what information was used from the source.

Here's the full parenthetical reference.

It's called "parenthetical reference" because you're putting the information in parenthesis ().

See how the authors and page number match with our source article? That's no accident!

If you paraphrase information, instead of directly quoting it, you won't need quotation marks but you will need the parenthetical reference.

This example showed one way to cite a direct quotation:

Now let's look at the Works Cited page.

Here's the entry for your source article.

Now, anyone who reads your paper will know the exact source of the quote you used.

Parenthetical Citations with MLA

First, find a quality source to cite.

Like this journal article

Source

Like this quote

Highlight or make note of any exact quotes, statistics, or other information you want to use.

Now let's move to your paper

and don't forget the page number (if one is available)

Here's one way you can integrate parenthetical citations into a research paper.

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Works Cited

Quotation marks are always used when you directly quote another source.

Both ways are acceptable.

by including the author name and page number in parenthesis like this:

(McCambridge, McAlaney, and Rowe 2).

Each time you cite a source choose the method that increases readability of your paper.

You can also integrate the author’s name into the sentence and cite the page number in parenthesis like this:

Also focusing on adolescents, McCambridge, McAlaney, and Rowe attempted

"to evaluate the possible effects of any behavioural measure of

adolescent alcohol consumption on any adult outcome" (2).

The parenthetical reference (which includes the names of the authors and the page number of the quote) points readers to the Works Cited page that lists the details about the source.

This allows your readers to access the original source for their own research.

See how the two are linked?

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