1. MLA Guide from OWL at Purdue: See the Edline Writing Help Link to use this great resource.
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4. Basic In-Text Citation Rules In MLA style, referring to the works of others in your text is done by using what's known as parenthetical citation. Immediately following a quotation from a source or a paraphrase of a source's ideas, you place the author's name followed by a space and the relevant page number(s). Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3). When a source has no known author, use a shortened title of the work instead of an author name. Place the title in quotation marks if it's a short work, or italicize or underline it if it's a longer work.
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16. Works Cited "Business Coalition for Climate Action Doubles." Environmental Defense . 8 May 2007. Environmental Defense Organization. 24 May 2007 <http://www.environmental defense.org/article.cfm?ContentID=582>. Clinton, Bill. Interview. New York Times on the Web . May 2007. 25 May 2007 <http://video.on.nytimes.com/>. Keyword: Climate. Dean, Cornelia. "Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet." New York Times on the Web 22 May 2007. 25 May 2007. 1 inch margin all around the page. Docktor 3 Running Header Hanging Indent & Citations in Alphabetical Order
Editor's Notes
The citation, both (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tells readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find
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