In-Text Citations Helpful Hints

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In-Text Citations Helpful Hints:

 Every time you use information that is not yours (a signal phrase), you MUST cite it!!!

 Citations are always between the ending punctuation and the last thing in the sentence

o Example: Companies can monitor employees’ every keystroke without legal penalty, but they may have to combat low morale as a result (Lane 129).

 Every time you use a new source in a paragraph, you should use a citation.

 If you use only one source for an entire paragraph, the only time you will make a citation is in the second to last sentence of the paragraph.

 There are different ways to use information from another source:

o Quotation- Kizza and Ssanyu note that “employee monitoring is a dependable, capable, and very affordable process of electronically or otherwise recording all employee activities at work” and elsewhere (2).

. The quotation will be in quote

o Paraphrasing- As a 2005 study by Salary.com and America Online indicates, the Internet ranked as the top choice among employees for ways of wasting time on the job; it beat talking with co-workers—the second most popular method—by a margin of nearly two to one (Frauenheim).

. A paraphrase is putting the original source’s information into your own words.

 You must have BOTH the in-text citations AND the works cited page. Not having one or the other is PLAGIARISM.

MLA Formatting:

. Make sure you use the correct heading, title and page number

o The page number is your last name with the page number.

o Page number instructions:

. Double click at the top of the page or go to the ‘Insert’ tab and click on ‘Page Number’ to access the header Hicks, 2

. Click on the tab ‘Page Number’ , then click on ‘Top of Page’, then click on ‘Plain Number 3’

. Finally, type in your last name, comma, then space

. Finally double click on the rest of the page to exit the Header function Hicks, 3