1. PLUG-INs A Student’s Guide to Information Literacy
IN-TEXT CITATIONS
for Direct Quotes
APA Style

2. What is an in-text citation?
What is APA style ?
What is a direct quote?

3. honeybees in this presentation?
Why are
honeybees in this presentation?
Why not,
they’re cute.
And, they make delicious honey.

4. American Psychological Association, a professional organization.
Anyway,
APA means
American Psychological Association, a professional organization.
What is an in-text citation?
It identifies the source of information in the body of your writing.

5. If you do not, it is plagiarism or stealing the words.
A direct quote or quotation is when you use the exact words from a book or other source in your own writing.
You must use quotation marks around these words to show that you did not write them.
If you do not, it is plagiarism or stealing the words.

6. Fortunately, it is easy to format direct quotations.
Remember, plagiarism is cheating. Students get in big trouble for cheating at HCT.
Fortunately, it is easy to format direct quotations.
Let’s see how.

7. Blah blah blah “di di di tran tran tran.”
After the quotation marks, you must show where the words came from.
Do it like this :
(Author, year, page)
You put it in the body of your writing, not at the bottom of a page or at the end.

8. (Author, year, p. #) Open parenthesis mark Closed parenthesis mark
Author’s last name only. Comma. Space.
Letter “p” lower case. Dot. Page number
Year. Comma.
Space.

9. The complete citation
(author name, year, title, city, publisher & pages) must be in the Bibliography or Reference List at the end of your paper.

10. Here is a different situation.
If the author’s name appears as part of your text, write the year in parentheses after the name. After the quote, write the page number in parentheses.
Here is a different situation.
For example : Smith (2004) has said that “by 2010 Dubai will be the most interesting city in the world (p. 23).

11. What about very long quotations, more than 40 words?
Words words words words words words
words words words words words words
Words words words (Smith, 2004, p. 23).
You must tab over and create a block. No quotation marks are needed around this block.
But, the author’s name, year, and page number must appear in parentheses.

12. Use . . . for the words you omitted.
What if you don’t need all the words and want to omit some words in a quotation?
Use for the words you omitted.
This is called an ellipsis. “words words”

13. What if the grammar does not make sense when you add the quote?
Or, you need to add a word?
Use square brackets to show that the word you added was not in the original.
“She
[Lady MacBeth] suffered from guilt.”

14. What if the source is a website?
Again, write the author’s last name and year.
But, if there is no author, write the first 3 words of the title of the webpage in italics and the year.

15. It is on the library shelf at BF 76.7 .P47 2007
For different examples, look in a book like this.
Or, enter “APA” in a title or keyword search of the library catalogue to find similar books.

16. Ask your teacher or your friendly librarian if you have any questions.
I hope this helps you understand how to write APA in-text citations for direct quotes.
Ask your teacher or your friendly librarian if you have any questions.

17. Thank you for listening !
HAPPY WRITING !