What abbreviations are used before the page (if listed) in an in-text citation?
Question by elpasoblueyes: What abbreviations are used before the page (if listed) in an in-text citation?
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Answer by Used_to_know
It depends on the citation system you’re using. Basically, most any system is ok if you’re consistent (and your teacher/professor hasn’t TOLD you which style guide or citation system he/she prefers).
If you’re just writing about a book or novel you’ve read in class, you can just put the page number in parentheses (say, if you’re all reading The Diary of Anne Frank, you can just put the page number). If you’re using a variety of sources, and you have a bibliography, you can use the author-page system, such as (Smith 43). If there’s more than one Smith, use the guy’s first initial. If he wrote more than one thing, use the book (or whatever) title, too. If you’re using footnotes/endnotes, you don’t put anything in-text except the footnote reference number, and put the page cite in the footnote/endnote.
Hope that helps!
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