"In the novel Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth rejects Mr. Collins proposal"(Page #).
Well, this is how you do it if that sentence above was a quote frm the book, but it's not.
This is a great question, by the way. The most important answer to consider is this; You ALREADY cited the book when you wrote: In the novel Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth rejects Mr. Collins proposal.
That is a way of citing the novel. And if you tell someone what I am telling you now, and you say, "Kevin told me that," then you will have cited me, too. A citation does not have to be in parentheses.
But when you do a direct quote, you should use the page number.
In
Pride and Prejudice, So-and So says to So-and-So, " XXX XXXX XXX X XXXXXX" (14), but she gets no reply from him.