If you're citing an author of a book, do you put this ) inside or outside of the quotation? So )." or ").

Answer 1

Outside, but before the period: ..." (1999).

Author last name, first initial. (Date of publication). Title in Italics, only the first word capitalized, page numbers.

Answer 2

In MLA format (which is used for the humanities), you do so like this:

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. New York: Riverhead Books, 2005.

So it's: Lastname, First. Title (underlined). Location of Publisher:Publisher, date.

If you're doing in-line citation, it's best to set off the quote like so:

In his novel, [title underlined], [Author's name here] describes his main character as "this, this, and this" (author's last name page number)

Or you can use a quote and then at the END of the sentence, cite the work like so (Smith 89). If you're only using one source, you only have to mention the author's name once and you can just cite the page number.

Answer 3

This is a very vague question.

...when, in "Ode to a Nightingale," he asks: "do I wake or sleep?" (Keats 80).

That is a correct citation. If instead you wrote:

Keats asks many questions in his poetry ("...do I wake or sleep?" ("Ode to a Nightingale" 80)).

That is also a correct citation, but it is a horrible way to quote somebody. Basically, you should always work your quotes into the line you are writing (like my first example), in which case the brackets go after the close-quotation marks and before the next punctuation mark:

"Blah blah blah" (someone/titleofwork page#).

Answer 4

It depends on what style you are using. For example, MLS style has different requirements than APA style. You should check one of those handbooks.

Answer 5

This isn't clear -- why use a quotation mark at all to cite an author?
And why use parenthesis? Give a little more detail, please.

Answer 6

what style is it in?