Directory to MLA in-text citation models
General guidelines for in-text citations
Author named in a signal phrase
Author named in parentheses
Author unknown
Work with no page numbers (Web source)
One-page source
How to cite a source with an author or authors
Two or three authors
Four or more authors
Authors with the same last name
Two or more works by the same author
Two or more works by different authors
Corporate author
Government agency as author
An entire work
Indirect source (source quoted in another source)
Encyclopedia or dictionary entry
Selection in an anthology
Multivolume work
Novel with numbered divisions
Literary work without parts or line numbers
Verse play
Poem
Sacred text
Web source with page numbers
How to cite a source with no author
Legal source
How to cite a source with page numbers
Book (with author named in a signal phrase)
Book (with author named in parentheses)
Article
How to cite a source with no page numbers
Work with no page numbers (Web source, author unknown)
Poem (with line numbers)
