MLA style for in-text citations

DIRECTORY TO MLA STYLE

  • Author named in a signal phrase
  • Author named in a parenthetical reference
  • Two or three authors
  • Four or more authors
  • Organization as author
  • Unknown author
  • Author of two or more works cited in the same project
  • Two or more authors with the same last name
  • Indirect source (author quoting someone else)
  • Multivolume work
  • Literary work
  • Work in an anthology or collection
  • Sacred text
  • Encyclopedia or dictionary entry
  • Government source with no author named
  • Electronic or nonprint source
  • Entire work
  • Two or more sources in one parenthetical reference
  • Visual included in the text