This document provides guidelines for citing sources in-text using MLA style for research presentations. It discusses using in-text citations to demonstrate how well-informed you are and to indicate where information came from. Punctuation rules are provided, such as placing the period after the parentheses. Examples are given for citing different source types such as books, websites, newspaper articles, and presentations. The same citation rules apply within presentations.

1. MLA In-Text
The Awakening Research Presentations

2. Why In-text?
• You demonstrate how well-informed you are, which
gives your ideas authority and credibility.
• Your reader knows exactly where each piece of
information came from.

3. Punctuation Rules
• In general, the period is placed after the parentheses.
• For example, completing research is an essential piece to
demonstrating college readiness (Knaze).

4. (Print) Source with Author
• For a book with one author:
• The National Traumatic Stress Network proposes creating a new
Institute of Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence within the
National Institute of Health (NIH) to focus and coordinate research
on the causes, consequences, treatment and prevention of child abuse
(Almond 73).
• For two or three authors:
(Johnson and Smith 13) or (Brown, Smith, and Williams 341).
• For sources with more than three authors:
(Cordero et al. 45).

5. Sources Without Authors
• The last form of abuse is called exploitation. This
means forcing a child to do something illegal (“Child
Maltreatment”).
• “Child Maltreatment – Psychological Abuse.” Gale
Group. 2010. Health and Wellness. Gale Group. 12
April 2010. <http://galenet.galegroup.com>.

6. Internet Article (Author & Speaker)
Morgan’s mother, Patti Pena, reports that the driver
“ran a stop sign at 45 mph, broadsided my vehicle
and killed Morgan as she sat in her car seat.” A week
later, corrections officer Shannon Smith, who was
guarding prisoners by the side of the road, was killed
by a woman distracted by a phone call (Besthoff).

7. Newspaper (Author & Speaker)
Frances Bents, an expert on the relation between
cell phones and accidents, estimates that between
450 and 1,000 crashes a year have some connection
to cell phone use (Layton C9).

8. Example with the author’s name in
the preceding sentence
• Using police records, John M. Violanti of the
Rochester Institute of Technology investigated
the relation between traffic fatalities in Oklahoma
and the use or presence of a cell phone. He found a
nine fold increase in the risk of fatality if a phone
was being used and a doubled risk simply when a
phone was present in a vehicle (522-23).

9. A source citing another source
Even a spokesperson for Verizon Wireless has said
that statewide bans are preferable to a “crazy
patchwork quilt of ordinances” (qtd. in Haughney
A8).

10. Citing more than one source at a
time
• While some distracted drivers receive monetary fines,
others are asked to complete community service
(Pena, Ippolito J1).
• Separate each separate source with a comma.

11. Presentations
All the same rules still apply.

12. Include the same components.
• Include a Works Cited page at the end of your
presentation.
• Follow MLA format.
• Alphabetize entries.
• Use in-text to cite sources within your presentation too.
• Cite images with hyperlinked captions.

13. Works Cited (Example)
• Korg, Jacob. Dylan Thomas, Updated ed. New York: Twayne
Publishers, 1992. Twayne's English Authors Series 20.
Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 4 Apr. 2013.
• Thomas, Dylan. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas. New
York: New Directions, 1957. Print.

14. Presentation slide
• Laugharne, Wales
• First visited in 1937 (Korg 8-11)
• Returned between work for
BBC in London (Korg 8-11)
• Eventually purchased for Dylan
and Caitlin by his benefactor,
Margaret Taylor in 1949
• (Korg 8-11)
Thomas’ house in Laugharne, Wales

15. Questions?