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<p>perhaps this should be obvious, but I cannot find any info online about the right way to cite works in a college essay. I used a fiction book I read as the basis of mine, and I included a few quotes. can I just stick them in there, since I have provided the book title and it's obvious that's what I'm quoting, or do I have to to add a reference to this book as a bibliography? for that matter, would I have to reference page numbers for "facts" I take from the book, even when they're not direct quotes? I really like my essay, and I don't want to mess up something like this and look like I didn't put the time into doing it right.</p>

<p>thanks for any help!</p>

<p>I would not clutter a personal college essay with citations appropriate for a research paper. If the reader knows that you got the quotes and information from the fiction book you mentioned, that will be sufficient for a personal college essay imo.</p>

<p>thanks for the reply. I was feeling like that was the right thing, but then again I have gotten points off in school for citing wrong before. The book is introduced in the first sentence and stays woven in throughout so I'm sure it will be fine.</p>