Question

The following question refers to “Credit Your Sources”: When giving credit within a paper when the source that you are using does not have an author, what information should you place within the parenthetical citation at the end of the idea?

A. You should find another source with a clear author. Otherwise, you are not properly giving the author credit.

B. the first word of the direct quotation and the page number

C. a guess at the author and a page number

D. the title or a shortened form of it and a page number

Answer 1

my guess would be D since you can not find the author   

Answer 2

When giving credit within a paper when the source that you are using does not have an author, the information you should place within the parenthetical citation at the end of the idea is:

D. the title or a shortened form of it and a page number

Most trustworthy sources have an author. However, sometimes there is no author specially when it is a source found online. An example of an in-text citation in these cases could be (Title of the Article 29).