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"MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

1. In-text Citations for Print Sources with Known Author:

For Print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Example:

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as "symbol-using animals" (3). Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).

*Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley: U of California P, 1966. Print.

2. In-text Citations for Print Sources with No Known Author:

Example:
We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has “more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . . ” (“Impact of Global Warming” 6).

*“The Impact of Global Warming in North America.” GLOBAL WARMING: Early Signs. 1999. Web. 23 Mar. 2009."

Text from LEO is in quotation marks:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/ Visited Date: 2/22/2011

Specific steps:

"[Hardcopy]
Okuda, Michael, and Denise Okuda. Star Trek Chronology: The History of the Future. New York: Pocket, 1993. Print.
- Name of authors
- Title of websites or books
- Place of publication
- Publisher or Database
- Date
- Other information
[No author or editor]
Vulcan Reflections: Essays on Spock and His World. Baltimore: T-K Graphics, 1975. Print. - Title of Book or Website
- Place of Publication
- Publisher or Database
- Date
- Other information"

Text from Long Land University is in quotation marks:
http://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citmla.htm Vistited Date: 2/22/2011

I searched a book in library. It has multiple authors, and I use it as a guide to write in MLA styles.
"Given the choice of conversion or exile, half of the Jewish population converted." (Mann, Glick, and Dodds 32)

APA
"If the author's name is mentioned in the text
Most often, an author's last name appears in the text with the date of publication immediately following in parentheses: "

O'Hara (1982) provides an interesting insite on Aristotle.
"If the author's name is not mentioned in the text
When the author's name does not appear in the text itself, it appears in the parenthetical citation followed by a comma and the date of publication:"

The contrasts and relations between these two types of questions can be heightened by introducing some new and interpretative terminology. (O'Hara, 1982).

"Note: If you cite the same source a second time within a paragraph, the year of publication may be omitted."
Text from LEO is in quotation marks
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/research/apadocument.html#references Date visited: 2/22/11

Book by one author: Rhode Island University
Gendler, Tamar Szabo & Hawthorne, John. (2006). Perceptual Experience. Oxford, NY: Clarendon Press.
- Name of author or authors
- Year of publication
- Name of book
- Place of publication
- Publication company

http://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citapa.htm Date visite: 2/22/11

Book by one author from LEO

O' Hara, M.L., (1982), Substances and Things, Washington, D.C: University Press of America, Inc.
- Name of author
- Year of publication
- Name of book
- Place of publication
- Publication company

Book by two or more authors

Gendler, Tamar Szabo, & John Hawthorne. (2006). Perceptual Experience. Oxford, NY: Clarendon Press.

- Name of authors (Last name of first author, first name & then first name of second author followed by last name.
- Year of publication
- Name of book
- Place of publication

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/research/apabooks.html Date visited: 2/22/11

"In-Text Citation Capitalization, Quotes, and Italics/Underlining

•Always capitalize proper nouns, including author names and initials: D. Jones.

•If you refer to the title of a source within your paper, capitalize all words that are four letters long or greater within the title of a source: Permanence and Change. Exceptions apply to short words that are verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs: Writing New Media, There Is Nothing Left to Lose.

•When capitalizing titles, capitalize both words in a hyphenated compound word: Natural-Born Cyborgs.

•Capitalize the first word after a dash or colon: "Defining Film Rhetoric: The Case of Hitchcock's Vertigo.""

Text in quotation from LEO
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Shan Lu ❤ Life

2011年2月22日星期二

"MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

1. In-text Citations for Print Sources with Known Author:

For Print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Example:

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as "symbol-using animals" (3). Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).

*Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley: U of California P, 1966. Print.

2. In-text Citations for Print Sources with No Known Author:

Example:
We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has “more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . . ” (“Impact of Global Warming” 6).

*“The Impact of Global Warming in North America.” GLOBAL WARMING: Early Signs. 1999. Web. 23 Mar. 2009."

Text from LEO is in quotation marks:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/ Visited Date: 2/22/2011

Specific steps:

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2011年2月22日星期二

"MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

1. In-text Citations for Print Sources with Known Author:

For Print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Example:

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as "symbol-using animals" (3). Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).

*Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley: U of California P, 1966. Print.

2. In-text Citations for Print Sources with No Known Author:

Example: We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has “more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . . ” (“Impact of Global Warming” 6).

*“The Impact of Global Warming in North America.” GLOBAL WARMING: Early Signs. 1999. Web. 23 Mar. 2009."

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We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has “more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . . ” (“Impact of Global Warming” 6).