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This is an example of a quote taken from Diana Hacker's Pocket Style manual. Hacker is mentioned in the signal phrase. After the quote, in parantheses, is the year in which the book was published and the page number where you can find the quote. Different citation styles include different information in the in-text citation.
Here is a summary, not only of the quote found on page 158, but of Hacker's entire book. Because this summary doesn't correspond to a particular passage or page of the book, there is no page number included in the in-text citation.
When you think of citations, a list of resources may come to mind. But there's another component of source citing--the in-text citation. Every time you quote, paraphrase or summarize from a source, you need to include a reference to the source right in the text of your paper. This usually takes the form of author, title, date and/or page information, in parentheses or footnotes. Sometimes the author's name and the title of the work appear in a signal phrase. In-text citations let the reader know exactly which parts of your paper were influenced by another author's work. Below are some examples of how to use in-text citations.
Here is a paraphrase of the same passage from Hacker's book. Notice that I've put the quote in my own words, but the idea remains the same.
