Unit 4: Common Problems and FAQs
Repeated Citations
If citing a source throughout your work, give a full citation each time.
If discussing a source's content for several sentences in a row, you do not have to repeat citations. Make it clear to your reader which source you are referring to.
You can do this by linking the reader to previous citations by repeating the researcher’s name:
Example
In one of the first studies on student writing tasks, Horowitz (2011) analysed 54 writing assignments from one graduate and 28 undergraduate courses taught in 17 departments of an American university. Horowitz identified seven categories of writing tasks expected of students: summary of/reaction to a reading; annotated bibliography; report on a specified participatory experience; connection of theory and data; case study; synthesis of multiple sources; and research project. While Horowitz's study did not have a particular disciplinary focus.
The second and third mentions of Horowitz’s name are not citations, but they serve the same purpose. They make it clear to the reader that the discussion of the study cited in sentence 1 has continued.
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