Create your Works Cited FIRST! It is much easier to format your in-text citations if you have done the Works Cited page.
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Consult these resources when creating your in-text citations and Works Cited page:
In-Text Reminder: Use the first word in the Works Cited entry and place it in parenthesis (ignore "a," "an," & "the"). If no author is given, start with the first word of the title. Provide the appropriate page number if the source is paginated.
EXAMPLES:
Short Work from a web site:
"Social and Historical Context:Vitality." Arapesh Grammar and Digital Language Archive Project, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, www.arapesh.org/socio_historical_context_vitality.php. Accessed 22 Mar. 2016.
Book with one author:
Bowker, Gordon. James Joyce: A New Biography. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
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From A Writer's Reference, 8th edition, pp. 478-9
How to cite a short work from a website, A Writer's Reference, 8th ed. pg. 447
FORMAT:
Author: Last name, First. "Title of the Short Work/Page." Title of Website. Sponsor (if different from title of website), update date, URL required. Date of access (INCLUDED ONLY IF NO UPDATE DATE GIVEN).
SAMPLE:
Gallagher, Sean. "The Last Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau." Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Pulitzer Center, 25 Oct. 2012, www.pulitzercenter.org/reporting/china-glaciers-global-warming-climate-change-ecosystem-tibetan-plateau-grasslands-nomads.
"Losing a Country, Finding a Home." Amherst College, www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/russian/acrc/lcfh. Accessed 4 Jan.2016.
From A Writer's Reference, 8th edition, pp. 488-9
E-Books:
Web Based
Author Last Name, First Name. Book title. Edited by or Translated by (if provided), publisher, year. website title, URL.
Example:
Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard UP, 2014. Google Books, books.google.com/books?isbn=0674369556.
E-book/E-reader
Author Last Name, First Name. Book Title. publisher, year. e-book/e-reader.
Example:
Beard, Mary. SPQR:A History of Ancient Rome. Liveright Publishing, 2015. Nook.