In-text citations are brief citations found after a direct quote or a paraphrase to indicate the source you consulted. They are located in the body of your work. In-text citations are placed in parentheses. A typical in-text citation is composed of the element that comes first in the entry in the works-cited list (usually the author’s last name) and a page number.
Reading is “just half of literacy. The other half is writing” (Baron 194).
When using the author’s name in the sentence, only include the page number in parentheses.
According to Naomi Baron, reading is just half of literacy. The other half is writing” (194).
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