Homework Help: in-text citations

Posted by jake on Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 8:37pm.

If I have an internet article, how would I do an MLA in-text citation of the article. There's no page number. Would I just put the author's last name only in parentheses?

I've googled it, but I couldn't find anything,

in-text citations - Writeacher, Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 8:49pm
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.
in-text citations - Writeacher, Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 8:50pm
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.

You can also see what a Works Cited page looks like – click on Sample Works Cited in the left column.
in-text citations - Ree, Friday, March 23, 2012 at 5:15am
Please show me an example of in text citation from an article

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