What goes inside a parenthetical citation?

What goes inside a parenthetical citation?

• A. The author's last name and page number.
• B. The full title of the work.
• C. The publisher's name.
• D. The date of access.

Answer: (A)

Inside a parenthetical citation you provide just enough information to identify the source and pin down where the idea appears. The standard choice is the author's last name along with the page number where the material can be found. This brief note links the quoted or paraphrased material to the full citation in your bibliography or works cited, without repeating a long title in the text. The full title, the publisher’s name, or an access date aren’t used in the parentheses because they belong in the complete citation, not in-text. If a source has no page numbers, you would use whatever locator your style approves (like a paragraph or section) or rely on the author’s name for attribution.

Inside a parenthetical citation you provide just enough information to identify the source and pin down where the idea appears. The standard choice is the author's last name along with the page number where the material can be found. This brief note links the quoted or paraphrased material to the full citation in your bibliography or works cited, without repeating a long title in the text. The full title, the publisher’s name, or an access date aren’t used in the parentheses because they belong in the complete citation, not in-text. If a source has no page numbers, you would use whatever locator your style approves (like a paragraph or section) or rely on the author’s name for attribution.