Hi Nicole,

Yes, that’s right. Usually if you paraphrase a source in multiple consecutive sentences, you can just cite it in the first one. But when you add your own ideas and then return to the source again, you should cite it again, as in your example.

This example sentence is from a source (Source 37). This example sentence is from my own brain. This is another idea paraphrased from the same source used earlier (Source 37).

Like that?

Hi Covina,

When you need to use a possessive apostrophe in this context, the correct form is “Sordab’s (2021) study …”

Hi Arra,

In cases where all of the applicable information already appears in your sentence, you can just leave out the parentheses, since there’s no further information to give.

ex. According to Smith, “Citation isn’t that hard as long as you know the basic rules” (?)

What would I put in the parentheses? No page numbers, no date, and I would put just “Smith” in except that I already named the author…

Hi Muriel,

Yes, in most styles (and all of the three main styles covered here), you’d mention the names of both authors for a two-author book. The name of the book isn’t a mandatory part of the citation, but you can mention it in your sentence if you feel it’s relevant information.

There are a couple of issues in your example though: First, the name of the textbook would usually be italicized rather than in quotation marks: Gender. And second, it’s not necessary to mention the authors’ names both in the sentence and in the parentheses—you should keep your citations as concise as possible. So if you’d already mentioned them in the sentence, the part in parentheses could just be (2019, p. 13); or you could remove the earlier mentioned of the authors’ names and keep the parenthetical citation as is.