Should i cite after every sentence

Use your best judgment, and when in doubt, ask your instructor for help or clarification. This is so helpful. What about when reading material for your paper? How can one tell from the other. Groups blah blah blah Peters noted that blah blah blah If i want to use the middle sentence "Groups blah blah blah Sara, Librarian: Hi Nancy, this is a great example of a time when critical thinking skills come into play.

It's not always easy to tell when an author is paraphrasing another author's work or if they are stating something in their own words. Use your best judgment in these cases. The whole idea of citing a source is to be able to point your readers to the work you used when you did your research. When paraphrasing information from a textbook, are you required to include the textbook name as well as the author in the paragraph or just the author? Kate, Librarian: When paraphrasing and creating an in-text citation, you will use the author's name s and the date only.

For example, Smith, The textbook or book's title will be included in the reference page, and not in the in-text citation. That is really helpful. Thank you for taking the time to articulate this.

Thank you. This is the first site I have seen anywhere that outlines this clearly with the bad, correct but ugly, good examples. May I ask, is this the same for MLA? Obviously you don't need to put in the year for MLA--but I mean as far as how you handle successive citations for the same source in a paragraph of paraphrase?

Sara, Librarian Reply: For MLA style, Seneca Libraries actually has a great example of what the repeated use of one source in a paragraph could look like See the Seneca Libraries guide - box in the lower right corner of the page. So another question--I read on your cite as I have on the OWL that successive parenthetical citations from a print source should initially be listed as Lastname And for each parenthetical citation thereafter without changing to a new source, you can leave out the author's last name and simply put in the page number Well for sources where you have no page number, can you simply leave out a citation entirely because it's understood, use a signal phrase, or just include the citation again?

I'm assuming signal phrase or repeatedly citing it unlike a print source is the answer. Thank you! This was incredibly helpful. As I was writing a focused summary for sociology, I was becoming incredibly bogged down with all the in text citations, trying to figure out if there was anyway to make it less unwieldy and awkward. This is perfect! Thanks s'much! Each instance of quoted or paraphrased information within a paragraph needs a citation.

In order to make it clear that quoted or paraphrased information is not your own work, cite every quotation and every new instance of paraphrased information in your paragraphs.

You can alternate this with putting the in-text cite in parentheses at the end of other sentences or the paragraph. Putting a citation at the end of the paragraph is fine there should be at least one citation at the end of each paragraph if the material is paraphrased. Including just one citation at the end of a paragraph is not sufficient unless the last sentence is the only information in the paragraph that came from the cited source.

Ideally, using paraphrasing tools is considered cheating because the content is not original and the tools do not give credit to the real author. Paraphrasing tools are software that can be used to re-write articles and essays without plagiarizing. The best way to detect paraphrasing plagiarism is to run the paper — or the area under suspicion — through a plagiarism detector, such as our plagramme.

Our detector detects paraphrasing and highlights areas suspected of plagiarism in red. With the advancement in technology, several algorithms have been created that detect plagiarism and even include detection of paraphrased content. Free Paraphrasing tools do their jobs so badly that the content that comes out of it makes no sense whatsoever.

Inadequate paraphrasing is when the words and phrases you are using are too similar to those of the original source. Good paraphrasing should demonstrate your understanding of the ideas from the original source, not simply re-state those ideas using a different arrangement of words.

Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home Do I have to cite every sentence in a research paper? Ben Davis June 1, Do I have to cite every sentence in a research paper? I'm writing a paragraph and I'm using the same information for several sentences in a row.

Do I need to put the citation after each sentence when it's the exact same reference? Multiple in-text citations to the same work over a large section of text can be visually jarring and is not entirely necessary.

The rule of thumb is to cite the very first sentence, make it clear you are still talking about the same work in your subsequent sentences for example, "The study noted that If you have a simple follow-on sentence in which it is still clear that you are talking about the same work, you do not need the reference in the second sentence.

If at any point you think it might not be clear in the sentence that you are still referring to the same work, include another in-text citation. For author-date styles like APA, if you have repeated the author's name from one sentence to another, you do not need to include the year after the author's name in the second instance if it is clear you are still talking about the same work see page of the APA Publication Manual.

Auvinan et al. It was also noted by Auvinan et al.