In-Text Citations - Signal Phrases

Shakespeare declares, "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep" (Shakespeare 33).

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When you use a signal phrase, the signal phrase includes the author's name + a verb + a comma. You include only the page number in the parenthetical citation.

• Thanks!

• Thank you!

• ¡Griacias!

• Thank you kindly.

Nabokov writes, "And the rest is rust and stardust." (224).

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According to Lee, "Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what" (24).

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Forster poses the question, "It makes a difference, doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?" (12).

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Huxley says, "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." (191)

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Frankl asserts "Everything can be taken from a man but one last thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way" (56).

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Austen declares, "We are all fools in love" (pg. 188).

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Milne writes, "A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise" (14).

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The parenthetical citation comes at the end of a quote in parentheses ( ), and a signal phrase comes before a quote and includes the author's name + a verb + a comma.

• Parenthetical = Parentheses

• Signal Phrase comes before the quote

• Author's name + a verb + a comma, Got it!