In-Text Citations
For short quotes, use quotation marks and follow the quotation with the name of the author being quoted and the page number the quote may be found on in the book or article. If the name of the author is included in the sentence that leads to the quote, it is permissible to use just the page number, surrounded by parentheses.
For longer quotations that are four lines or more when typed, isolate the longer quotation by using the block style and indent one inch or ten spaces from the left margin. Your longer quote will not need quotation marks because it is already separated from the text of your research paper. Follow the longer quote with the author name and the page number, surrounded by parentheses.
With book citations, the writer's name comes first, then the title of the book, and then the publication information, which includes the place of publication, the publisher and the date of publication. The format of the writer's name should be last name first followed by a comma, then the last name, followed by a period. The title of the book should be underlined, and then have a period next to it.
The article format follows the same general format as the book citation. The writer's name is first, followed by the name of the article. Next is the name of the magazine or journal that the article came from, followed by the publication information.
Differences between a book citation and the article citation are that the article title is surrounded by quotation marks, and the name of the magazine must be underlined. The publication information will be the date the issue came out and the page that it was on.
With Web page citations begin with the author's name. Follow with the title of the article enclosed with quotation marks and punctuated with a period. Then comes the name of the site, which must be underlined. Then you put in the publication date, which is followed by when you accessed the information or visited the site. Then comes the URL to the article which must be enclosed with angle brackets.