If you are summarizing the short story in your
own words, it is the same thing as paraphrasing any other information in the
paper. You have a couple options. You can include the source
information in the paragraph itself, by saying something to the effect
of:
In the
short story "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe...when the narrator is
miraculously saved at the very last minute by General LaSalle himself
(154-177).
Even if you have a
copy of the short story printed out, it was probably first
published as part of an anthology, or at the very least, can be found in one. Find the
place the short story was originally published and use THAT as the source entry in your
works cited. Then, notice your parenthetical citation here only includes page numbers
from the anthology.
An alternate method would be to leave
out the author's name in your paragraph and simply
say:
In the
short story "The Pit and the Pendulum"...when the narrator is miraculously saved at the
very last minute by General LaSalle himself (Poe
154-177).
If you do not
mention the author in your own words, put him in the parenthetical citation. You do NOT
have to cite every sentence because you are paraphrasing the whole thing from one
source. If you plan to blend any quoted material with the paraphrase, "like this" just
put the page number in parenthesis at the end of the sentence with quotes and put the
period at the very end (166). Again, no author necessary as you will either cite him at
the very end, or mention him at the beginning.
REMINDER:
the parenthetical citation must relate directly to the source
citation in your Works Cited. Make the parenthetical citation as easy as possible by
finding the short story in an actual book.
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