Question

When writing a research paper, if one paragraph comes from one source (and includes quotes) do you simply cite after the entire paragraph- or do you cite after each quote, and at the end?

Answer 1

i think it might be after the entire paragraph. That would be for mla.

Answer 2

It depends on how you wrote your paragraph.

For example, this is an actual paragraph from one of my own research papers.
.......

Machiavelli wrote,“ a prince who has a strong city and does not earn his people's hatred cannot be attacked...” (31). Meaning that if the citizens of the state appreciate the prince, it would be hard for another state to attack it. Chernow claimed that genealogists from both France and Germany were waiting to “manufacture a splendid royal linage for the oilman” (Chernow 3).

The (31) is the main book that was assigned to us to use as a source. This is how my teacher told us to cite it. If your teacher has told you differently I would follow that.

The (Chernow 3) is from another source.

Do you see how after I inserted the quote I cited it and then after I explained the quote I didn't cite? If you wrote in that way you don't have to cite the whole paragraph because the "source" didn't write your own explanation.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

If you write quotes your cite the source right after the quote with footnotes. and if you got other information from a source, then you write the source right after you wrote the part where you got it from. That doesn't have to be after a paragraph, it could also be in the middle of one depending where you wrote information from another source.

However, if you use the same source twice in a paragraph, you have to cite it twice. That goes for the whole paper .
Hope I could help :)