Handling Quotes in Your Text
©Author’s last name and page number(s) of quote must appear in the text
© Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).
© Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).
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Examples:  The two examples in this slide illustrate methods for including parenthetical citations in the text.  If the author’s name is listed in the preceding sentence, only the page number of the quotation should appear in the parenthetical citation following the sentence.  If the author’s name does not appear within the sentence, the parenthetical citation should include the author’s last name and the page number.  In either case, a reader should be able to cross-reference back to the Works Cited page and locate all of the publication information needed to find Wordsworth’s work, in this case an excerpt in an anthology:

Wordsworth, William.  Preface to Lyrical Ballads. 1802.  Romanticism: An Anthology.  Ed. Duncan
   Wu.  Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1995. 250-69.

The facilitator may also note that the parenthetical reference is located before the period.