How do you cite a quote within a sentence?

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How do you cite a quote within a sentence?

For a direct quotation, always include a full citation (parenthetical or narrative) in the same sentence as the quotation, including the page number (or other location information, e.g., paragraph number). Place a parenthetical citation either immediately after the quotation or at the end of the sentence.

How do you give credit to a quote from a website?

Use the author’s name and year for in-text parenthetical citations. APA uses author-year parenthetical at the end of any sentence in which you quote or paraphrase information from the website. The parenthetical citation goes inside the closing punctuation for the sentence.

What is it called when you quote someone?

Definition: Quotation marks (“) are used to show that an author is using someone else’s exact words—they may be the words of a person, a character, or a written source. This is called a direct quotation.

What do you call a quote you live by?

An aphorism is a brief saying or phrase that expresses an opinion or makes a statement of wisdom without the flowery language of a proverb. Aphorism comes from a Greek word meaning “definition.” The term was first coined by Hippocrates in a work appropriately titled Aphorisms.

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