when you write a research assignment it's important that you acknowledge the ideas or quotes from other sources that you use right when you use them not only does this show that you're an honest and ethical student but it also tells the reader exactly where you found that awesome piece of information so how do you give credit to other sources in your assignments you use intext citations which can also be called parenthetical citations an Intex citation connects information you're borrowing from a source to a citation in your bibliography which helps teachers and classmates understand where the
information originally came from include an Intex citation in your paper when you use a quote word for word from a source or when you borrow an idea or phrase from someone else intext citations have to be written in a special way they require four things in this order an open parenthesis the author's last name the page number that you found the information on and a close parenthesis in text citations are placed inside the sentence so make sure that the period is outside of the parentheses if you are using a source word for word in your
paper you need to put quotation marks around it this is called a direct quote let's say that I found a sentence on page 20 of The Giver by Lois Lowry that explains an important part of the story if I take all or even just part of the sentence word for word and put it in my paper I would need to include quotations around it and add an Intex citation like this let's say you want to explain something that happened in The Giver but you explain it in your own words instead of taking it straight out
of the book this is called a paraphrase and while you don't need to include quotation marks you still need to include an Intex citation this will give credit to Lois Lowry's writing and let your teacher or classmates know where the event happened in the book remember make sure that the first word in the Intex citation matches the first word in the citation of your bibliography that way when people want to learn more about the source in your paper all they have to do is look for the same word in the bibliography to find it let's
review the Intex citation takes readers to a specific citation in your bibliography and the specific citation tells the readers where they can find the piece of information you used there are special rules and exceptions for using Intex citations so if you're unsure check with your librarian or teacher just in case a great site for practicing the rules of Intex citations is no rink.com check out a practice exercise Now by going to this link
