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Page 1: IN-TEXT CITATIONS for Direct Quotes APA Style. What is an in-text citation? What is a direct quote? What is APA style ?

PLUG-INs A Student’s Guide to Information Literacy

IN-TEXT CITATIONS for Direct Quotes

APA Style

Page 2: IN-TEXT CITATIONS for Direct Quotes APA Style. What is an in-text citation? What is a direct quote? What is APA style ?

What is an in-text citation?

What is a direct quote?

What is APA

style ?

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Why are honeybees in this

presentation?

Why not, they’re cute.

And, they make delicious honey.

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Anyway, APA means American

Psychological Association, a professional

organization.

It identifies the source of information in the body of your

writing.

What is an in-text

citation?

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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.

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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.

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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.

Blah blah blah “di di di tran tran

tran.”

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Open parenthesi

s mark

Letter “p” lower case. Dot. Page number

Author’s last name only. Comma. Space.

Closed parenthesis

mark

Year. Comma.Space.

(Author, year, p. #)

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The complete citation (author name, year,

title, city, publisher & pages) must be in the

Bibliography or Reference List at the end of your paper.

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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.

For example : Smith (2004) has said that

“by 2010 Dubai will be the most interesting city in the world (p.

23).

Here is a different situation.

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But, the author’s name, year, and

page number must appear in

parentheses.

Words words words words words words words words words words words wordsWords words words words words wordsWords words words words words wordsWords words words words words wordsWords words words words words wordsWords words words words words wordsWords words words (Smith, 2004, p. 23).

What about very long quotations,

more than 40 words?

You must tab over and create a block.

No quotation marks are needed around this block.

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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”

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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.”

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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.

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For different examples, look in a book like

this.

It is on the library shelf at BF 76.7 .P47

2007

Or, enter “APA” in a title or keyword search of the

library catalogue to find similar books.

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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.

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HAPPY WRITING !

Thank you for listening !


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