I'm using a textbook that has a collection of stories by various authors, but the author of the textbook (person who compiled these stories) is a different person. If I'm trying to write an in-text citation for one of these stories from the textbook, should the author I cite be the author of the story or the author of the textbook?
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You are citing a published work in an anthology. Use any of these to help you. The first one -- from Purdue's OWL -- is probably explained the best.
When you are writing an in-text citation for a story within a textbook, you should cite the author of the story, not the author of the textbook. This is because the person who wrote the story is the original creator, and they should receive credit for their work.
To properly cite the story within your text, you should include the author's name and the page number where the story is located in the textbook. If you are using MLA style, you might format it like this:
(Author's Last Name page number)
For example, if you are citing a story called "The Hound of Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from a textbook compiled by John Smith, your in-text citation would look like this:
(Doyle 56)
Remember to also include the full citation for the story in your Works Cited page, where you would include the name of the author of the story, the title of the story, and the details of the textbook as the container.