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General Guidelines for MLA In-Text Citations (285)
- Name
the author, either in a signal phrase such as “Walker maintains” or in a
parenthetical citation.
- Include
a page reference in parentheses.
No “p.” precedes the page number, and if the author is named in
the parentheses, there is no punctuation between the author’s name and
the page number.
- Place
the citation as close to the material being cited as possible and before
any punctuation marks that divide or end the sentence, such as commas,
semicolons, or periods—except in a block quotation, where the citation
comes one space after the period or other closing quotation mark.
- Underline
the title of books and magazines, and place quotation marks around the
titles of articles, poems, and plays.
Do not use italics.
- For
Internet sources, follow the same general guidelines as for print
sources. Keep the parenthetical
citations as simple as possible, providing enough information for
readers to find the full citation in your works-cited list. (Do not, for example, provide a long
URL within a parenthetical citation; instead cite either the author’s
name or the title of the site or article.)
Maimon, Elaine, Janice H. Peritz,
and Kathleen Blake Yancey. A Writer’s Resource. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007.
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