Homework Help: MLA in-text citations

Posted by Jenna on Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 2:05pm.

A professor gave us an assignment based on one of three websites. The website I chose has multiple pages, each with a title, but none of the pages have titles. When citing a fact or quotation from a certain page, should I use the page's title in the in-text citation?

MLA in-text citations - Writeacher, Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 2:12pm
No. When citing websites, you don't refer to pages or sections, etc. Just the website, as follows --

You need to have each source of information cited in TWO places:

1. the Works Cited page that is placed after the last page of your paper, and
2. in parentheses in the text of your paper, immediately after the quotation or paraphrase.

For example, this would go on the Works Cited page (with proper indentation for the second and following lines):

Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. Chicago, 1903. Project Bartleby. Ed. Steven van Leeuwen. Dec. 1995. Columbia U. 2 Dec. 2003
<www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/dubois/>.

... and this would go immediately after the quotation or whatever:
(Du Bois)

The information in parentheses in the text needs to be as brief as possible. That's why there's a Works Cited page – for all the details of the listing.

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Here's a good place for information on citing in MLA format:
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml

Hold your cursor over the words CITING SOURCES in the left column and then click on whatever type of source you need help with. Many examples will show up. You will get two examples for each type of reference – one for the Works Cited page and one for the parenthetical (in-text) citation.

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