In-Text Citations Lesson

 Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for in-text documentation.The student is providing in-text documentation for the following online source, which includes no page numbers:

Walker, Rob. "Stuck on You." The New York Times Magazine, 3 June 2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/magazine/06fob-consumed-t.html. Accessed 9 June 2010.

• According to a 2008 study, drivers with bumper stickers on their cars are much more likely to display road rage (Walker).
• According to a 2008 study ("Stuck on You"), drivers with bumper stickers on their cars are much more likely to display road rage.

Unless you must list the Web site name in the signal phrase in order to get the reader to the appropriate entry, do not include URLs in-text.

• True
• False

In-text citations appear where in the paper? 

• at the end
• throughout
• at the beginning
• nowhere

What do we call facts that can be found in numerous places and are likely to be known by a lot of people? 

• plagiarism
• quoting
• paraphrasing
• common knowledge

MLA stands for _______.

• More Love Always
• My Lovely Aunt
• Monkeys Lose Apples
• Modern Language Association

When you paraphrase you are using someone's ideas and not their exact words. Do you still need to cite your source? 

• yes
• no
• only sometimes
• only once

The placement of an in-text or parenthetical citation within a paper is important.  Select which in-text citation is properly done from the options below.

• Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately (Smith 10).
• Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately. (Smith 10)
• Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately. (Smith p.10)
• (Smith 10) Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately

The four parts of an in-text citation are...

• open parentheses, author's last name, page number, and close parentheses
• open parentheses, author's first name, page number, and close parentheses
• open parentheses, author's last name, a comma, the page number, and a close parentheses
• parentheses, quote, comma, author's last name

Revkin, Andrew C. “Clinton on Climate Change.” The New York Times, 17 May 2007, www.nytimes.com/video/world/americas/1194817109438/clinton-on-climate-change.html. Accessed 29 July 2016.
Which citation is correct? 

• (Revkin)
• Revkin
• (Clinton on Climate Change 1)
• (Clinton on Climate Change 2007)

"Buffy Slays Academics." BBC News Education. 7 Nov. 2001. BBC. Web. 8 July 2008
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/1642829.stm>.

• (Buffy Slays Academics 1)
• (Buffy Slays Academics 2008)
• (Buffy Slays Academics)
• (BBC News Education)