Citations - Assignment | Career Project (McGriff) - Research Guides at Lone Star College

Citations and PowerPoint

Unlike essays, there's no special way to structure your PowerPoint for MLA or APA style -- colors, fonts, layout, etc are all up to you.

First Slide	Content Slides	Last Slide(s)
Like your MLA heading, include: title, your name, class info, date	Include in-text citations wherever you borrowed information from your research!	Works Cited (MLA)

Oral Citations

Giving oral citations are just like narrative citations in an essay.

The first time you cite someone, introduce them. It's not "According to Jane Doe" but "According to Harvard psychologist, Jane Doe, who led a study on..."
Is the source important? Consider namedropping them. Is the source a random news article, helpful but not groundbreaking? Leave it parenthetical -- seen but not mentioned.
You should have both citations on the slide, a bibliography at the end, and your oral citations -- all three. The oral citations should reflect your bibliography, and they don't necessarily replace your in-slide credits.

In-Slide Citations

Just like an essay, anything not original to you needs credit provided! You do have more flexibility in how and where you include citations, though.

The following examples use APA, but the same arrangement goes for MLA, too.

You can use traditional parenthetical citations, especially if you've used multiple sources on one slide.

You can also go less formal [unless your professor has said otherwise!] by tucking the citation into the corner of the slide (Greene, 2010).

You must also include a References slide! We can use hanging indents, but it's not strictly necessary. A bulleted list might also work in this situation.