In Text Citation Question?

Question

I wrote a paper that required in text citation but i am not sure if i did it right. I cited the information when i first presented it but did not when i restated it later in my conclusion. Is that ok?

Answer 1

Here are some examples how you would cite some stuff... You could check yours against these and see if it's right...

Book by a single author
(Fukuyama 325)
Fukuyama, Francis. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. New York: Farrar, 2002.

Book by two to three authors
(Gilman 34)
Gilman, Sander, Helen King, and George Rousseau. Hysteria beyond Freud. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.

Book by more than three authors
(Quirk 12)
Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leach, and Jan Svartvik. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman, 1985.
Or
Quirk, Randolph, et al. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London, Longman, 1985.

Work in an anthology
(Emerson 33)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Self-Reliance.” Ed. Phillip Lopate. The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present. New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1994. 32-45.

Article in a reference book
(“Mandarin”)
“Mandarin.” The Encyclopedia Britannica. 1994 ed.

Article in a scholarly journal
(Barthelme 78)
Barthelme, Frederick. “Architecture.” Kansas Quarterly 13 (1981): 77-80.

Article in a magazine
(Weintraub 94)
Weintraub, Arlene. “A Thousand-Year Plan for Nuclear Waste.” Business Week 6 May 2002: 94-96.


I think you have to restate every time though...

Hope I helped!
10 points best answer?

Answer 2

Any idea that is not purely yours should be cited every time.