In- Text Citations In-text citations are used to protect you from plagiarism and to show readers what source specific information came from (Fitts 11).

Writing your Paper: What do you need to Cite? All Statistics All “Direct Quotes”- When you are using someone else’s words without changing them Paraphrasing author’s words Any information that is Not Common Knowledge Common knowledge is defined as information you found in more than 3 sources.

How to do Properly Cite your Information How to do Properly Cite your Information? Use Parenthetical or In-text Documentation If there is an author you do this by listing the author’s name in parenthesis after the sentence in which the information was found. If no author is given, you give the first few words of the title of the article. Basically, you put in parenthesis the words that match the first words of your entry on the Works Cited page.

Sample Works Cited Page Preston, Richard. "Exclusive: Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest" National Geographic. National Geographic, 2015. Web. 17 May. 2017. <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150302-honduras-lost-city-monkey-god-maya-ancient-archaeology/>. “Pernicious Parasite Strikes Explorers of ‘Lost City’." National Geographic. National Geographic, 2015. Web. 17 May. 2017. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151019-leishmaniasis-lost-city-Honduras-Mosquitia-parasitic-disease/

Sample Works Cited Page Preston, Richard. "Exclusive: Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest" National Geographic. National Geographic, 2015. Web. 17 May. 2017. <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150302-honduras-lost-city-monkey-god-maya-ancient-archaeology/>. “Pernicious Parasite Strikes Explorers of ‘Lost City’." National Geographic. National Geographic, 2015. Web. 17 May. 2017. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151019-leishmaniasis-lost-city-Honduras-Mosquitia-parasitic-disease/

Sample: Statistic Summarizing in your own words statistics or facts Studies show the disease is more common than the explorers thought. The CDC believes there are different species of the parasite all over the world and have estimated there to be more than one million cases per year (Pernicious Parasite Strikes #). Page number if available Article Title (only if no author given) No page number provided here because this information was found in an electronic format. You can’t be sure which page it appeared on in the original article

Sample – Using Quotes The explorers eventually found the Lost City within “a vast region of swamps, rivers, and mountains containing some of the last scientifically unexplored places on earth” (Preston #). Period Author Page number if available