Record the author's name and the page number of the paragraph you will paraphrase in your piece. You should also keep track of the other biographical information, such as the work's title, publication year, medium used and URL for a website, which you will use when creating your Work's Cited page.
Include a parenthetical citation directly after your paraphrased information. If your paraphrase is only one sentence, the parenthetical citation will come directly after the first sentence and just before the period. However, if your paraphrase is a paragraph or longer in length, it should come after the last sentence in the paraphrase and before the last period. The parenthetical citation will include the name of the author of the paragraph as well as the page number of the paragraph, in parentheses and divided by a comma. For example, your parenthetical citation may look like this: (Dickens, 100).
List the work that your paraphrased in your Works Cited page as a reference. You will need to include all bibliographical information in your Works Cited entry. If you did not use the entire work of the author, but only paraphrased one paragraph and did not consult the rest of the work, you can list the page number you referenced in your bibliographical entry.