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MLA Citation 101

MLA Citation 101. The two parts of MLA documentation work together. In-text Citations Let readers know that you have quoted, paraphrased, or summarized information from an outside source. They appear in the body of your paper right next to the information you’re including. Works Cited Page

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MLA Citation 101

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  1. MLA Citation 101 • The two parts of MLA documentation work together. • In-text Citations • Let readers know that you have quoted, paraphrased, or summarized information from an outside source. They appear in the body of your paper right next to the information you’re including. • Works Cited Page • Is an alphabetical list (at the very end of your paper) of your outside sources where readers can find the complete bibliographic information for a specific source.

  2. About In-Text Citations • They tell readers two important things: • What source your quotation or paraphrase is taken from. • Where in the source your quotation or paraphrase is taken from.

  3. Example In-Text Citation When Including a Quotation in Your Paper In this citation, the author’s name is in the signal phrase before a direct quotation, and the page number is in parentheses: Christopher Metress reports that “[b]etween July 1891 and June 1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published twelve Sherlock Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine” (183).

  4. Rearranging Our In-Text Citation Christopher Metress reports that “[b]etween July 1891 and June 1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published twelve Sherlock Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine” (183). “Between July 1891 and June 1892,” writes one scholar, “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published twelve Sherlock Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine” (Metress183).

  5. Practice: Correct These In-Text Citations • Three may keep a secret” he said, “if two of them are dead. (Benjamin Franklin, p. 99) • According to one source, “dogs are smarter than cats.” (Smith 2000 pp. 10-21). • Carol Freeman wrote that “weather is the trickiest part of learning to fly an airplane (Freeman, 95).”

  6. Works Cited Page Important: Works Cited entries are source-type specific. You must know what kind of source you are citing. Book, One Author Basic Format: Author’s last name, first name. Book Title. City: Publisher, Year. Publication Medium. (Tip: When there is more than one publishing city, you only need to list the first one.)

  7. An Example Works Cited Entry Book, One Author Basic Format: Author’s last name, first name. Book Title. City: Publisher, Year. Publication Medium. Doyle, A. Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1900. Print.

  8. Work Cited: What are you looking for? Book Title Author Publishing City Publishers Publishing Date

  9. Practice Making a Works Cited Entry for this Source:

  10. Works Cited (Answer) Rogers, Susan Carol. “Anthropology in France.” Annual Review of Anthropology. 30. (2001): 481-504. Jstor. Web. 20 October 2008.

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