Never quote from your sources without telling the reader who is speaking. If the speaker is the author of a book or article you used, you must mention his or her name in the sentence that introduces the quotation.

FOR EXAMPLE: According to James L. Roark, President John F. Kennedy "tried to get black leaders to call off the March on Washington" in 1963.¹

If your quotation is not from the author you read but from someone who is quoted by the author, then you introduce the person whose words are being quoted and not the author who quoted them.

FOR EXAMPLE: One of the black leaders, James Farmer, responded to Kennedy's effort to get them to cool down by saying, "If we got any cooler, we'd be in a deep freeze."¹

Web-based sources sometimes present problems because the author of a Web page may not be clear. Click on How to Write a Footnote or an Endnote for a Web Site or see the section "Extended Footnote and Endnote Examples" in A Student's Guide to History, eighth edition, pages 129-30).