How to Create an In-Text Citation.
Use a "lead in" to introduce the quoting or paraphrasing of someone else's ideas.Then, in parentheses, put the authors last name and the page number
Example (Foot 345).
A better example: As Historian Shelby Foote explains... , or In Shelby Foote's book Shiloh, the author discusses General Lee's feelings about leading the Confederate Army. Lee states... (Foote 456).
The period of the sentence goes AFTER the parenthetical citation.
Use a "lead in" to introduce the quoting or paraphrasing of someone else's ideas.Then, in parentheses, put the authors last name and the page number
Example (Foot 345).
A better example: As Historian Shelby Foote explains... , or In Shelby Foote's book Shiloh, the author discusses General Lee's feelings about leading the Confederate Army. Lee states... (Foote 456).
The period of the sentence goes AFTER the parenthetical citation.
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