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A comprehensive foreign-language source citation question?

Asked by: Robin Rios

How do you cite a source in a foreign language?

Formula for citing a foreign language source in APA:

Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year Published). Title in the original language [Translated title]. Place of Publication: Publisher.

How do you cite foreign language sources Harvard?

Formula for citing a foreign language source in Harvard:

Author Last Name, First Initial (Year Published). Original title. Place of publication: Publisher.

How do you cite a translated article in APA?

In General:

  1. Include the name of the translator, followed by “Trans.”, in parentheses after the book’s title.
  2. For in-text citations, include the publication year of the original work and the publication year of the translation.

How do you cite a translated article in MLA?

MLA Referencing

For translated sources in an MLA Works Cited list, you should give the name of the translator after the words “Translated by” before the publication information: Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Translated by Alan Sheridan, Penguin Books, 1977.

How do you cite a non English article?

If you use the original version of a non-English work, cite the original version. Non-Latin alphabets are not used in the reference list in APA Style, so the title needs to be transliterated (that is, converted to the alphabet you are using to write a paper), and then followed by an English translation, in brackets.

How do you write foreign words in an essay?

Italicizing Foreign Words

  1. If only one unfamiliar foreign word or brief phrase is being used, italicize it.
  2. If an entire sentence or passage of two or more sentences appear in a foreign language, type the passage in plain type and put the passage in quotation marks.

How do I cite or reference non English or translated sources in Harvard style?

Family name, INITIAL(S). Year. Title. Place of publication: Publisher.



How do you cite a Chinese article?

In APA Style

For non-Latin scripts (e.g. Chinese) you must transliterate the reference into the English alphabet. This allows you to put your references into alphabetical order. Generally the best way to do this is using pinyin romanization, however note that it is not necessary to include any tone marks.

How do you cite a Chinese name?

Sometimes the surname is presented in all-capital letters on the source to distinguish it from the given name(s), for example, CHANG Yi-Chun or Yi-Chun CHANG. Do not retain the all-caps style for the reference; still write this name as Chang, Y. -C., in the reference list entry and as Chang (2016) in the text citation.

What is an MLA citation example?

Using In-text Citation

MLA in-text citation style uses the author’s last name and the page number from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken, for example: (Smith 163). If the source does not use page numbers, do not include a number in the parenthetical citation: (Smith).



How do I cite a translated work?

In place of the author’s name, the translator’s name appears. His or her name is followed by the label, “translator.” If the author of the book does not appear in the title of the book, include the name, with a “By” after the title of the book and before the publisher.

How do I cite a translated quote?

Luckily, the solution is quite simple: If you translated a passage from one language into another it is considered a paraphrase, not a direct quotation. Thus, to cite your translated material, all you need to do is include the author and date of the material in the in-text citation.