In-text citation (no page number given)
Anush Yegyazarian reports that in 2000 the National Labor Relations Board’s Office of the General Counsel helped win restitution for two workers who had been dismissed because their employers were displeased by the employees’ e-mails about work-related issues. The case points to the ongoing struggle to define what constitutes protected speech in the workplace.
In-text citation (page number given)
Anush Yegyazarian reports that in 2000 the National Labor Relations Board’s Office of the General Counsel helped win restitution for two workers who had been dismissed because their employers were displeased by the employees’ e-mails about work-related issues (62). This case points to the ongoing struggle to define what constitutes protected speech in the workplace.
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If the source is one page long, MLA allows (but does not require) you to omit the page number. Many instructors will want you to supply the page number because without it readers may not know where your citation ends or, worse, may not realize that you have provided a citation at all.
Works cited entry
Yegyazarian, Anush. “Nosy Bosses Face Limits on E-Mail Spying—Workers Gain New Freedoms.” PC World Sept. 2000: 62. Print.
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