How do I cite when paraphrasing more than one consecutive sentence?
Answer
If you just put one in-text cite at the end of the paragraph, it might not be clear where the ideas at the beginning of the paragraph came from. You should include credit to the authors in each sentence where you are quoting, summarizing or paraphrasing facts and ideas from their work. This also helps differentiate your own ideas from those in your references.
The best way to do this, and still make your paper easy to read, is to use a lead-in referring to your source at the beginning of a sentence or at the start of the paragraph. You can alternate this in-text citations in parentheses at the end of other sentences or the paragraph. Make it clear in each following sentence that you are referring to the same source using phrases like "According to", "They also state...", "That article concludes...". If it is clear, you don't need to repeat the in-text citation for those sentences.