What are In-Text Citations?
As I said on the first page of this lesson, writing out an entire sentence each time you cite a source could get tiresome after you’ve quoted the same source dozens of times. For example, let’s say you used information in The Big Book of Bread 25 times in your paper. Instead of giving your readers all the information (author, title, publisher, place of publication, date of publication) each time you quote the book, you can use a quick shorthand to refer to it each time you use it. This is called the in-text citation. The in-text reference will refer you to a page that has the full information on the source you’re citing. That page is called the references, works cited, or bibliography page, and we’ll talk about those on the next page of this lesson.
