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Stacy Cameron Prosper High School 2011 In-Text Citations MLA Style

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An example… The author uses imagery to express the joy felt by the old man when he says, “His smile was so wide he’d have to break it into sections of fit it through a doorway” (Spinelli 102). Punctuation comes AFTER the last parenthesis There is no comma after the author’s name and no “p” for page number. The in-text citation directs the reader to the full citation in the works cited portion of your research paper. Full MLA-style citation Spinelli, Jerry. Maniac Magee . New York: Scholastic, 1991. Print.

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Special circumstances!

Why does only the page number appear in this citation? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],What about citing Internet sources? Obtained from Online Writing Lab at Purdue

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],In your paper. No ( ) because author name is stated in sentence Example!

A citation is not needed when stating something that is considered common knowledge

Photo Credits ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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