Include In-Text Materials Properly
When creating your essay, you will have source materials that you will use to strengthen your views, argue your topic, and assure the reader that you have explored al sides to the topic.
When you incorporate a quote, paraphrase, or summary into your work you must provide proper citation--within the sentence itself. You will not wait until the end of the paragraph, and you cannot skip over in text citations, assuming that the end of the paper Full-source citations will do the trick of attributing credit to the sources. Nope...you've got to make sure that the source is clearly referenced within the sentence where you used it.
Note the parenthetical reference in the following sentence: Christ declares his exclusive salvific value when he states, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6).
The Bible reference is not included within the quotation marks because it is not a part of Christ’s declaration. The period would come after the parenthesis because you cannot begin a new sentence without a period immediately preceding it.
Therefore, when integrating source content, be sure that your (in text citation) section is properly attached to the end of the sentence, prior to the end punctuation. If you place the (in text citation) section after the end punctuation of the sentence, then it is not attached to anything, just hanging there, and you have not properly attributed the source to that sentence.
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