Directory to MLA in-text citation models

MLA-82

General guidelines for in-text citations

Author named in a signal phrase

Author named in parentheses

Author unknown

Work with page numbers

Work with no page numbers

One-page source

How to cite a source with an author or authors

Author named in a signal phrase

Author named in parentheses

Two authors

Three or more authors

Authors with the same last name

Two or more works by the same author

Two or more works in the same citation

Corporate author

Government agency as author

Entire work

Indirect source (source quoted in another source)

Selection in an anthology or a collection

Multivolume work

Novel with numbered divisions

Literary work without parts or line numbers

Verse play

Poem

Web source with author

MLA-83

Visual with author (artwork, photograph, table, graphic)

Historical document (with author)

Personal communication and social media

How to cite a source with no author

Author unknown

Encyclopedia or dictionary entry

Legal source

Sacred text

Visual with no author (artwork, photograph, table, graphic)