All of the information that you use in your paper must be tagged. Every paragraph in your paper should have at least one tag, and if the paragraph contains information from more than one source or more than one page in the same source, each bit of information will be tagged.

For example, suppose I read in a book by Smith (page 7) that George Washington Carver was born in Missouri, and I read in a magazine article by Jones (page 52) that he was born circa 1860, and then I read in a book by Martin and Stein (page 435) that he died in Tuskegee, Alabama, and I read in a book by Williams (page 310) that he died in 1943. I could put all this information together in the same sentence like so:

Born in Missouri (Smith 7) around 1860 (Jones 52), George Washington Carver lived a life 

that extended from the bonds of slavery to the heights of scientific achievement before his 

death in Tuskegee, Alabama (Martin and Stein 435), in 1943 (Williams 310).

Now this is an extreme example (I doubt you will have four tags in the same sentence), but it does illustrate how you give credit for the sources of your information.

If two sources have exactly the same information, then both sources are listed in the tag separated by a semicolon. For instance, suppose both Smith's book (page 96) and Jones' magazine article (page 53) state that Carver received a master's degree in science from Iowa State Agricultural College in 1896. Your paper might have a sentence like this:

In 1896, Carver graduated from Iowa State Agricultural College with a master's degree in 

science (Smith 96; Jones 53).

Remember that the tag is considered a part of the sentence, so the period that ends the sentence comes after the tag.

Note: All of this information actually comes from "Carver, George Washington." Encyclopaedia Britannica: Micropaedia, 1976.

When quoting a source, if the quote is three typed lines or less, surround the quote with quotation marks. For example,

Carver was especially concerned with promoting products which grew in the South like the 

peanut.  He once said that "the dried sweet potato [would] become as important an article 

of food as dried apples, peaches, prunes or fruits of any kind" (Leithauser and Bell 273).

Note: [would] is not in the original which reads will, but because of the way I had set up my sentence, I needed to change the tense of the verb will to past tense. I placed my change in brackets [ ] to indicate I had changed the original quote.

A quote which is longer than three typed lines should be block indented. For instance, suppose I take the section above and include with it a longer quote from the same source:

	Carver was especially concerned with promoting products which grew in the South, 

like the peanut.  He once said that "the dried sweet potato [would] become as important 

an article of food as dried apples, peaches, prunes or fruits of any kind" (Leithauser 

and Bell 273).  Like the peanut, the sweet potato, another product of Southern agriculture, 

was not a staple of the typical American diet.  Carver not only sought to promote Southern 

produce, but he saw the South as blessed by God in its unique agriculture as is evidenced 

in the conclusion of his essay, "The Undiscovered Sweet Potato":

		I have mentioned only a few of the eighty or more different products made

		from the sweet potato, but trust enough has been said to convince the

		most skeptical that the sweet potato is truly an aristocrat of the vegetable 

		kingdom with almost unlimited possibilities, and that God has bequeathed 

		to the South a wonderful heritage in its fine climate and soils peculiarly 

		adapted to large yields of almost every variety of this splendid vegetable.  

		(Carver qtd. in Leithauser and Bell 273)

By the end of his life, Carver would create 118 products derived from sweet potatoes and over 

300 from peanuts, changing these predominantly Southern foods into staples of the typical 

American household (Leithauser and Bell 270).

Notice in the last sentence, I have not quoted from my source, but I have used information contained in the source. Even though I have put the information in my own words, I still tag the information.

Note, too, that the tag for the block indented quote is outside the sentence (the period comes before the tag).

The Works Cited page citation for the book used as source for the above is

	Leithauser, Gladys Garner and Marilynn Powe Bell, eds.  "George Washington Carver."  The World of Science: An Anthology 

	     for Writers.  New York: Holt, Reinhart, and Winston, 1987.  270-274.

Note: Since I not only used Carver's essay from Leithauser's and Bell's book, but also information from their introduction to Carver's essay, I listed them as the source and not Carver. Had I only used quotes and information from Carver's essay in my paper, I could have listed my citation on the Works Cited page as the example below.

	Carver, George Washington.  "The Undiscovered Sweet Potato."  The World of Science: 

	     An Anthology for Writers. Eds. Gladys Garner Leithauser and Marilynn Powe Bell.  

	     New York: Holt, Reinhart, and Winston, 1987.  271-273.

Had I only used Carver's essay, my tag would be different, too. The tag for the two quotes used above would now be

		(Carver 273)		

If I was also using other sources in my paper written by Carver, the tag would include an abbreviated title:

		(Carver, "The Undiscovered" 273)