What is the proper form for internal documentation?
In narrative, parenthetical citations replace footnotes. Usually, you will have announced the author and work you are discussing. To cite quotations from that author’s work, simply place the page number in parenthesis after the quotation. EXAMPLE (quoting literary text): Mlle Reisz calls Edna “ma reine” (145), and the narrator characterizes her as “the regal woman” (145). Note that so long as the author and work are clear from context, you simply give page numbers parenthetically. You cite an editor or critic’s commentary just as you would cite a quotation from the literature. As with citing the author, give the editor’s last name followed by the page number parenthetically, wherever you would have placed a footnote, like this: (Gilbert 8). You may omit the editor’s name if it is clear from context. IMPORTANT: Every author you cite parenthetically must appear alphabetically in your Works Cited list. Be aware that even though you may have cited a collection of essays in your bibliograph