Cite your source in parentheses where you finish paraphrasing the source and resume presenting your own ideas. A summary both translates the original author's ideas into your words and reduces the wordage of the original. Research writers usually summarize when they judge the source material to be too long or too detailed for the present context. Select only the most representative examples. Delete nonessential phrases and modifiers.
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Introduce the source and cite the reference. Sources may be cited with in-text citations, footnotes, or endnotes. Most disciplines now allow in-text citations. APA style, the most commonly used style, places the author's last name, the year of publication, and the page number in parentheses after the source material is introduced in text. The parenthetical in-text citation is a link to the full bibliographical description of the source in the references list at the end of the paper.