Thursday, September 4, 2014

In-text Citation of Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing can be cited within the text as a quick guide to the reader about where to find the source of the information on the reference page...a like a mini-citation.  It can be done in two ways: referenced and embedded.

Referenced in-text citation (also called parenthetical citing) is listing the source's author and year right after the paraphrasing, but before the period of the sentence:


Deprivation of resources can lead to obsessing about the resources thought of as scarce (Greenberg, 2014).

The same paraphrasing can be done with an embedded in-text citation by making the author's name part of the sentence structure followed by the year in parenthesis:

According to Greenberg (2014), deprivation of resources can lead to obsessing about the resources thought of as scarce.

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