Attributive Tags and In-text Citations

“Attributive tags are short phrases that help you indicate that an idea in your writing comes from somewhere else”  – Uni. of Wyoming English 1010 handbook

Attributive tag examples

"Being all boy. . . means being less lovable," argues Eugene August (448).

According to Myra and David Sadker,  “At the highest educational level, where the instructors are most credentialed and the students most capable, teaching is the most biased” (95).

But at the end, Junod hints that we knew who the falling man was all along (80).

In-text citation examples

(See page 342 in the DK Handbook for further guidance)

Wise says we are “born to belonging” (1).

Smith response to this claim by simply saying, “Well, that’s a lie” (429).

Quote inside a quote:

Wise discusses a conversation he had in which a family member asked him if he “thought there was ever going to be a ‘race war’ ” (57).

Remember that punctuation comes after the page number, unless it is a question mark or exclamation point. Then the quote would look like this:

Ash seems to always be asking at the end of our assignments, to our annoyance, “Does this all make sense?” (1).