Directory to MLA in-text citation models

general guidelines for signal phrases and page numbers

  1. Author named in a signal phrase
  2. Author named in parentheses
  3. Author unknown
  4. Page number unknown
  5. One-page source

    6. variations on the general guidelines

  6. Two or three authors
  7. Four or more authors
  8. Organization as author
  9. Authors with the same last name
  10. Two or more works by the same author
  11. Two or more works in one citation
  12. Repeated citations from the same source
  13. Encyclopedia or dictionary entry
  14. Multivolume work
  15. Entire work
  16. Selection in an anthology
  17. Government document
  18. Historical document
  19. Legal source
  20. Visual such as a table, a chart, or another graphic
  21. Personal communication and social media
  22. Web source
  23. Indirect source (source quoted in another source)

    24. literary works and sacred texts

  24. Literary work without parts or line numbers
  25. Verse play or poem
  26. Novel with numbered divisions
  27. Sacred text