Integrating Quotations
Jared Aragona
Integrating quotations: Integrate quoted material into your sentences using standard formats.
Use the following (see underlined portions in the samples):
- a signal phrase,
- a parenthetical citation (if needed), and
- a works cited/references citation
MLA
Reading offers people a temporary chance to escape from their lives. In reference to this escape, Joyce Carol Oates writes, “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul” (42).
Works Cited
Oates, Joyce Carol. (Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities. E.P. Dutton, 1988.
** Note that Oates in text is what cross-references with Oates in the works cited.
APA
Reading offers people a temporary chance to escape from their lives. In reference to this escape, Oates (1988) writes, “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul” (p. 42).
References
Oates, J.C. (1988). (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities. Boston: E.P. Dutton.
** Note that Oates in text is what cross-references with Oates in the works cited.
When representing a source inside another source, use a signal phrase for the embedded source and the parenthetical citation to credit where you found it.
MLA
One might consider the case of Cheryl Moorefield, a labor nurse from North Carolina and mother of two, who thinks that “you can ‘be there’ without being there” (qtd in Chira 125).
Works Cited
Chira, Susan. “The Good Mother: New Realities Fight Old Images of Mother.” English 101. Ed. Mark Connelly. Thomson Heinle, 2006.
APA
One might consider the case of Cheryl Moorefield (as cited in Chira, 2006), a labor nurse from North Carolina and mother of two, who thinks that “you can ‘be there’ without being there” (p. 125).
References
Chira, S. (2006): “The good mother: New realities fight old images of mother.” English 101. Ed. Mark Connelly. Thomson Heinle.
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