author

Examples of author in the following topics:

• MLA: In-Text Citations and Parentheticals

  • The parenthetical should include simply the author’s last name (with no first or middle initial).
  • Authors should be presented in the order in which they are listed on the published article.
  • For an article with no known author, use the source title in place of the author's name, formatted as it would be (i.e., italicized or enclosed in quotation marks) in your Works Cited section:
  • If you need to cite multiple publications by different authors in the same sentence, you should list the multiple sources in alphabetical order by author and use a semicolon to separate them.
  • If an author has multiple publications that you want to cite in the same sentence, include the author's name in a signal phrase and the titles of the referenced sources instead in the parentheticals:

• Deciphering an Argument You're Reading

  • ", which means that the author is preparing to introduce the thesis.
  • If you keep the author's thesis in mind, you can figure out who is saying what even if the positional voice of the author seems to suddenly change in a radical way.
  • Why did the author introduce a new voice?
  • How does the author's thesis relate to this quote?
  • When you read, don't just passively accept what the author is saying--read critically.

• Chicago/Turabian (Author–Date): In-Text References and Parentheticals

  • In your paper, when you quote directly from a source in the author's words, or when you paraphrase someone else’s idea, you need to tell the reader where the words and ideas comes from so the original author gets credit.
  • Authors should be presented in the order in which they are listed on the published article.
  • For an article with more than four authors, the first time you cite the article in the text of your paper, you should use only the first author’s name followed by “et al.” and the year of publication.
  • If you need to cite multiple publications by different authors in the same sentence, you should list the multiple sources in alphabetical order by author and use a semicolon to separate them.
  • If within this citation you also have multiple sources by the same author, after that author’s name, separate the multiple dates of publication with a comma, and order them chronologically (earliest to latest).

• APA: In-Text Citations and Parentheticals

  • Authors should be presented in the order in which they are listed on the published article.
  • For an article with more than five authors, include only the first author's name followed by “et al.” and the year of publication in each in-text citation.
  • If you need to cite multiple publications by different authors in the same sentence, you should list the multiple sources in alphabetical order by author and use a semicolon to separate them.
  • If within this citation you also have multiple sources by the same author, after that author’s name separate the multiple dates of publication with a semicolon and order them chronologically (earliest to latest).
  • If multiple publications by the same author (or group of authors) were published in the same year, there is a special rule for denoting this.

• Chicago/Turabian (Author–Date): How to Reference Different Types of Sources

  • Now that you know the different components of a book citation in Chicago/Turabian Author–Date style and how they should be formatted, you will be able to understand the citation formats for other source types.
  • These are how your citations will be formatted on your References page at the end of your Author–Date style paper.
  • List the ways to cite different source types in Chicago/Turabian Author–Date style

• Reading Challenging Texts

  • How broad or narrow is the author's approach to the topic?
  • To whom does the author direct their arguments?
  • What kind of vocabulary does the author use?
  • What devices does the author utilize to express their thoughts?
  • Why does the author use these methods?

• Reading Carefully and Closely

  • What sort of organization does the author use?
  • What sort of vocabulary does the author use?
  • What is the author trying to do?
  • How does the author set up her thesis?
  • Who is the author's intended audience?

• Chicago/Turabian (Author–Date): The References Section

  • You always want to start with the author information.
  • You should present the author information in the following order and format: the author's last name, a comma, the author's first name, the author's middle initial (if given), and then a period:
  • Again, we start with the author information.
  • The first author will be listed with their surname first (Conrad, Joseph) but subsequent authors will be listed with their first names first (Joseph Conrad).
  • Here we have only two authors, but if we had five, the "and" would come before the fifth author's last name, after the comma following the fourth author's name.

• How to Reference Different Types of Sources in Footnotes

  • Different types of source require different citation information, but they always follow the form of: author, title, publication information, and then either page number or website URL (all separated by commas). 

• MLA: The Works Cited Section

  • You always want to start with the author information.
  • You should present the author information in the following order and format: the author's last name (capitalized), a comma, the author's first name, a middle initial if given, and then a period:
  • Again, we start with the author information.
  • Here we have only two authors, but if we had five, the "and" would come before the fifth author's last name, after the comma following the fourth author's name.
  • If you are referencing multiple publications by the same author (or group of authors), there is a special rule for denoting this.