In-text APA Citation
In an article at the Center for Disease Control’s website called “Childhood Obesity Causes and Consequences,” the CDC issues the warning that a primary cause of excess weight gain in children is “eating high-calorie, low-nutrient foods and beverages” such as sugary drinks. Most people hearing the term “sugary drinks” think of soda exclusively; however, the category is much broader. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, “sugary drinks consist of fruit drinks, soda, energy drinks, sport drinks, and sweetened waters.” In an attempt to alert us to the prevalence of sugar in commercial beverages, the Journal of Public Health Dentistry has compiled a list of what it considers sugary drinks, adding sweetened teas to the category. And finally, in the “Advice for Patients” section of the journal Nutrients, examples can be found of several sugary drink types including fruitades such as Gatorade and lemonade, fruit-flavored drinks like Kool-Aid and Fruit Punch, sodas such as Coke, Pepsi and 7Up, and energy drinks like Monster or Red Bull. These drinks are found in most American homes and often considered healthy. But Jennifer Pomeranz in the Journal of Public Health Policy warns that sugary drinks are the largest source of added sugars in most children’s diet and also their main source of calorie intake. When children drink soda, Pomeranz continued, they take in more calories than they can immediately use, and the unspent calories get converted into fat.
References
“Childhood Obesity Causes and Consequences.” (2016, December 15). Retrieved April 16, 2018.
Keast, D., Fulgoni, V., Nicklas, T., & O’Neil, C. (2013). “Food Sources of Energy and Nutrients among Children in the United States: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003–2006.” Nutrients, 5(1), 283–301. MDPI AG.
Mallonee, L. F., Boyd, L. D., & Stegeman, C. (2017). “A scoping review of skills and tools oral health professionals need to engage children and parents in dietary changes to prevent childhood obesity and consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages.”
Ogden, Cynthia L., et al. “Consumption of sugar drinks in the United States, 2005-2008.” US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, 2011.
Pomeranz, J. L., Munsell, C. R., & Harris, J. L. (2013). “Energy drinks: An emerging public health hazard for youth.” Journal of Public Health Policy, 34(2), 254-271.
I see the model. Now, how does it work?
When the author of this argument about sugary drinks makes a reference to an academic journal, website, or magazine article in her essay, she quotes or paraphrases the article’s content and provides enough details in the text to help readers find the source in the References list.
Example 1 (Publisher and Title, plus Quote):
In an article at the Center for Disease Control’s website called “Childhood Obesity Causes and Consequences,“ the CDC issues the warning that a primary cause of excess weight gain in children is “eating high-calorie, low-nutrient foods and beverages” such as sugary drinks.
Example 2 (Publisher plus quote):
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, “sugary drinks consist of fruit drinks, soda, energy drinks, sport drinks, and sweetened waters.”
Example 3 (Name of Journal, plus Paraphrase):
In an attempt to alert us to the prevalence of sugar in commercial beverages, the Journal of Public Health Dentistry has compiled a list of what it considers sugary drinks, adding sweetened teas to the category.
Example 4 (Name of Journal, Title of Article, plus Paraphrase):
And finally, in the “Advice for Patients” section of the journal Nutrients, examples can be found of several sugary drink types including fruitades such as Gatorade and lemonade, fruit-flavored drinks like Kool-Aid and Fruit Punch, sodas such as Coke, Pepsi and 7Up, and energy drinks like Monster or Red Bull.
Example 5 (Author, Name of Journal, plus Paraphrase):
But Jennifer Pomeranz in the Journal of Public Health Policy warns that sugary drinks are the largest source of added sugars in most children’s diet and also their main source of calorie intake. When children drink soda, they take in more calories than they can immediately use, and the unspent calories get converted into fat.
Exercise
YOUR TURN TO CREATE IN-TEXT CITATION:
In a Reply below, read the paragraph below, excerpted from a recent article in the New York Times.
- Create a brief statement about something the author says.
- Decide for yourself who the Author is.
- Do you want to quote Jacob Goldstein, the author of the book?
- Or do you want to quote Richard Davies, the author of the book review?
- In creating your statement, use natural language and the in-text citation technique to provide the bibliographic information a reader would need to trace your source.
- Decide for yourself what bibliographic information is essential.
- Decide for yourself whether paraphrase, or direct quotation, or a combination is the best way to deliver the author’s meaning.
The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round
By Richard Davies
Sep. 8, 2020
Book Review. Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein
Of all the inventions we rely on to get through the day, nothing is as strange as money. Currency is a national bedrock that sits alongside anthems and flags; our cash — from pristine $100 bills to dog-eared 5 pound notes — seems solid, official and enduring. At the same time money is a confidence trick: an i.o.u. printed on cheap material that promises the holder nothing but more paper money. The evolving paradox of modern currency — foundational yet resting on faith — is the central theme of “Money,” a sweeping new history by Jacob Goldstein.
The main thread is set out right away: Money “seems cold and mathematical and outside the realm of fuzzy human relationships,” Goldstein asserts. But it’s really “a made-up thing, a shared fiction. Money is fundamentally, unalterably social.” The early chronicles of cash show how societies move from monies with intrinsic value (commodity currencies, like salt, or coins made from precious metal) to paper currencies that are valuable because they are tools — ways to exchange goods and services.
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In his book Money, Jacob Goldstein explains that money seems stable but is really “a made-up thing, a shared fiction” based on trust (Goldstein). He points out that what feels like a solid system is actually social. Over time, societies moved from using valuable commodities to paper money as a tool for trade.
A good start, figure8clementine
You’ll need to name the entire book title the first time. The second time you can abbreviated it to Money.
We don’t use (parenthetical author tags) like (Goldstein) in APA in-text citation, so you’ll have to work the author name into your citation.
You could try:
If you decide to revise, drop another Reply to this post and this time consider adding a reference to something Richard Davies said in his review.
In Richard Davies’s book review “The Fiction That Makes the World Go round” Davies says, “Currency is a national bedrock that sits alongside anthems and flags; our cash — from pristine $100 bills to dog-eared 5 pound notes — seems solid, official and enduring.”
A good start, Robofrog.
You correctly used Quotation Marks to identify the title of the book review, which is an article, not a publication.
You failed to set off the title with commas as needed to identify it as an Appositive (the same thing named twice).
You chose to make the possessive with two “s”s, which is fine if you would PRONOUNCE both “s”s. Would you? Otherwise, use just one.
You probably don’t need to name Davies twice, since it’s clear who wrote the quote.
So your paragraph could look like this:
If you decide to revise, drop another Reply to this post and this time consider adding a reference to something Jacob Goldstein said in his book.
In his book review of “Money,” titled “The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round,” Richard Davies claims that “money is a confidence trick: an i.o.u. printed on cheap material that promises the holder nothing but more paper money.”
A good start, loverofcatsandmatcha.
The first time you name a title, you’ll have to spell it out. If you mention it again, you can abbreviate it.
The book is titled Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing. As a publication, it belongs in italics.
I like that you incorporated the quotation into your own grammar so that the first word does not need to be capitalized.
Your paragraph could look like this:
If you decide to revise, drop another Reply to this post and this time consider adding a reference to something Jacob Goldstein said in his book.
In his book Money, Jacob Goldstein lays out his argument that money is, at its core, a “fundamentally, unalterably social” concept. It is this central argument that leads him to his claim that money is nothing without the faith that others will honor it.
A good start, Student12121.
The first time you name a book, you’ll have to use the full title. If you cite it a second time, you can abbreviate it.
I appreciate that you used double quotes even for quoting a short phrase.
Your paragraph could look like this:
If you decide to revise, drop another Reply to this post and this time consider adding a reference to something Richard Davies said in his book review.
In Richard Davies book review, “The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round,” he elaborates on a book titled Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing stating that “money is a confidence trick: an i.o.u. printed on cheap material that promises the holder nothing but more paper money.”
Very nice, Taco.
One detail:
The review belongs to Davies; it’s “the review of Davies,” which means Davies has to be made a possessive.
You have two choices:
It’s your call, but you can’t choose Davies without an apostrophe.
In his review of the book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein, titled “The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round,” Richard Davies says, “Currency is a national bedrock that sits alongside anthems and flags; our cash — from pristine $100 bills to dog-eared 5 pound notes — seems solid, official and enduring.” According to Goldstein however, money is actually “a made-up thing, a shared fiction.”
Very nice, Pineapple. We wouldn’t make all the same choices regarding commas, but where we differ the commas have nothing to do with citation, so let’s leave that for another day.
In his book review: The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round, Richard Davies describes the paradox of modern paper currency, “An i.o.u. printed on cheap material that promises the holder nothing but more paper money.”
I have some corrections for this one, Mongoose!
If you decide to revise, drop another Reply to this post and this time consider adding a reference to something Jacob Goldstein said in his book.
In his book Money, The True Story of a Made-Up Thing, Jacob Goldstein claims that money is “a made-up thing, a shared fiction” due to it being something we, as a society, decided to go along with. Goldstein believes that money has more to do with “fuzzy human relationships” rather than it being “cold and mathematical.”
I like the skillful way you’ve incorporated small quoted phrases to fill out and legitimize your paraphrase, pinkduck.
Maybe in another lesson I can encourage you to eliminate the instances of “being” and “it being” and “due to it being” that are never as direct as the alternatives and which exhaust readers’ attention.
Here’s an alternative to your phrasing:
In his book Money, The True Story of a Made-Up Thing, Jacob Goldstein claims that money is “a made-up thing, a shared fiction” which we, as a society, have decided to go along with. Goldstein believes that money creates “fuzzy human relationships” despite its “cold and mathematical” nature.
In Jacob Goldstein’s book Money, he describes money as “”a made-up thing, a shared fiction. Money is fundamentally, unalterably social.”” It is interesting to realize that money is a psychological illusion where we tell each other that we are going to use it to trade in for goods and services and based on how much money you accumulate determines your wealth and social- well-being.
In his book Money, The True Story of a Made-Up Thing, Jacob Goldstein adds that money, in its nature, is “cold and mathematical” which alludes to the idea that money is heartless and calculated. This leads one to believe that Goldstein holds more of a negative view towards the concept of money.
In Jacob Goldstein’s book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing, he explains that the form of currency has chanced throughout history, “The early chronicles of cash show how societies move from monies with intrinsic value (commodity currencies, like salt, or coins made from precious metal) to paper currencies….” This shows that we have been exchanging goods for our other wants and needs for centuries and centuries.
According to The New York Times, “currency is a national bedrock that sits alongside anthems and flags”. Richard Davies is highlighting the importance of money by comparing it to other national symbols.
In Richard Davies book review, “Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein,” firmly believes that money is a fundamentally, and unalterably social. He claims that money is a made up thing, a shared fiction of how societies moved from monies with intrinsic value to paper currencies which is a method of transaction.
In Richard Davies book review of Money: The True Story of a Made-up Thing, money “‘seems cold and mathematical and outside the realm of fuzzy human relationships,'”. Davies mentions this main thread almost immediately in his book review, so his audience can understand how he personally feels about the statement. Money represents that value can be placed onto anything as simple as paper, more importantly for transaction between society.
In Richard Davies book review of Money: The True Story of a Made-up Thing by Jacob Goldstein, titled The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round, Davies claims “money is a confidence trick.” This holds true as his claim is further explained that at face value, paper money holds no real worth, yet only the perception of value society has placed in paper money.
In his review of the book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein, titled “The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round,” Richard Davies emphasizes that, “Of all the inventions we rely on to get through the day, nothing is as strange as money.” He emphasizes his opinion and makes a remarks that, “But it’s really “a made-up thing, a shared fiction. Money is fundamentally, unalterably social.” This review emphasized how money is really just paper and how us as humans make it valuable and we determine social class and wealth by it.
Richard Davies’ book review, “The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round”, he analyzes the concepts explained in Goldstein’s Money, The True Story of a Made-Up Thing. The author claims that “the evolving paradox of modern currency…is the central theme [of the book]”, based off of Goldsteins’ explanation on how it is “a made-up thing, a shared fiction… fundamentally, unalterably social”.
Let’s see if I can do the mental gymnastics to make one of everything fit without falling into one of the common holes:
“The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round” is a cleverly written book review by Richard Davies for The New York Times; in which he does a great job of highlighting some key ideas in Jacob Goldstein’s book: Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing, by curating his own preconceptions such as “Currency is a national bedrock that sits alongside anthems and flags; … solid, official and enduring.” and then contrasts it alongside one of Goldstein’s revelations “(Money is) a made-up thing, a shared fiction.” in order to make a fleshed-out and digestible point.