How do you cite a book at the end of an essay?

Use the author’s last name and date of publication for in-text citations. Whenever you paraphrase or quote material from your source, provide a parenthetical citation at the end of the sentence. List the author’s last name, followed by a comma, then the year the book was published.

Do you have to cite every sentence in MLA?

If your entire paragraph is paraphrase of info you got from one of your sources, just put the citation at the very end, like you said. You don’t have to mention the author or do an in-text citation for every sentence.

Do I have to cite every sentence when paraphrasing?

Instead, when paraphrasing a key point in more than one sentence within a paragraph, cite the source in the first sentence in which it is relevant and do not repeat the citation in subsequent sentences as long as the source remains clear and unchanged.

Should I cite every sentence in a research paper?

No, because each instance of quoted or paraphrased information within a paragraph needs a citation. One citation at the end of a paragraph only notes that the last sentence of the paragraph came from the cited source.