Here is the original thing I wish I could right, but its not correctly formatted and I would like to use it anyway: Unlike Mrs. Bennet, the author finds love to be very important in marriage. As a matter of fact, according to the synopsis in the Tor Classics Reprint edition (August 15, 1994), the only requirements she really has for her daughters is for them to “Marry, marry well,” and “marry rich” (???). This is my paragraps so far, just wrote it today and I want it to be correctly formatted. What should I do, because its not reffering to Austen's writing, so I can't put (Austen, synopsis) because she didnt write it in the book I'm reading, TOR Classic did. I could put (Tor Classics Reprint edition, August 15, 1994, synopsis). Would that make sense? -Andrew It is according to this book: http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Classics-Jane-Austen/dp/0812523369 I already went to the site and found no help. Their quotes a directly from the author, on a page. Mine is from the synopsis, on the back cover of the book.

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The way you have it written now is a little clunky. I hope you don't mind, but I have taken a few liberties to get this thing in order. Here's my version, which you are of course welcome to: Unlike Mrs. Bennet, the author sees love as very important to marriage. In fact, according to the synopsis of the Tor Classics Reprint edition, the only requirements she has for her daughters is a simple three-step process: “Marry, marry well, [and] marry rich” (##). Assuming you have said who "the author" is before, you don't need her name for the parenthetical quote. The issue is then where the quote you pulled came from. If it is from a page, then just put the page number where I put ##. However, if this is from the synopsis you mention, then you need to rephrase the paragraph altogether. For the purpose of this example, I assumed that the synopsis is on the back cover: Unlike Mrs. Bennet, the author sees love as very important to marriage. In fact, according to the backcover synopsis of the Tor Classics Reprint edition, the only requirements she has for her daughters is a simple three-step process: “Marry, marry well, [and] marry rich." As it is you have no page number, so you refer to the place where it exists as best you can. As such, it won't be a parenthetical reference, but more as one would cite some aspect of visual rhetoric, noting the position or location. The biggest problem is, however, that as a source the backcover synopsis isn't exactly very useful. I mean, they just put those together so people know what the book is about. Of course, this is an entirely different problem altogether. I hope, as it is, the citation reference helps.