Parenthetical documentation refers to the citing of sources within a paper or article. When a person cites the source, they usually put the author's last name, and the page number where they found the information, inside the parenthesis at the end of the quote. The full citation will be located on the Works Cited page.
Parenthetical documentation is used to cite sources within the text of a paper or presentation. It gives credit to the original authors and allows readers to locate the full reference in the bibliography or works cited section.
Place quotes around it and/or use parenthetical documentation.
Besides being a mouthful to try and say, parenthetical documention is where you cite the source of information or a quote right in the paragraph you are writing instead of using footnotes or endnotes. You simply put your source (and page number) in parentheses directly after the sentence where you used the information or quote. Does this help? :)
APA style is one of the most popular documentation styles used today. Unlike MLA it does require parenthetical citations instead of footnotes.
When adding parenthetical documentation at the end of a sentence, place the punctuation outside of the parentheses. This ensures that the punctuation is logically part of the sentence rather than the citation. For example, "This is a sample sentence (Smith, 2020)."
in-text citation or parenthetical documentation
After the closing parentheses for the in-text citation.
Parenthetical reference
appear at the end of the sentence, within the parentheses, with the author's last name and page number if applicable.
Parenthetical citations can be made in a variety of different ways based on the amount of information you have on your source in the works cited. The most common parenthetical citations are formed by using the author's last name and the page number on which the information was found. Example: (Miller 54)
Parenthetical Girls was created in 2003.