Two authors (MLA)

MLA-52

In-text citation

As legal scholars Gostin and Gostin explain, “Interventions that do not pose a truly significant burden on individual liberty” are justified if they “go a long way towards safeguarding the health and well-being of the populace” (214).

In-text citation

One argument contends that “[i]nterventions that do not pose a truly significant burden on individual liberty” are justified if they “go a long way towards safeguarding the health and well-being of the populace” (Gostin and Gostin 214).

Explain

  • Name the authors in a signal phrase (as in the first example) or include their last names in the parenthetical reference (as in the second example).
  • Use no punctuation between the name(s) and the page number.
  • In the second example, the brackets are used around the letter i to indicate that the writer changed a capital I in the source to a lowercase i to fit the context of the surrounding sentence. (See also Using brackets to make quotations clear.)

Works cited entry

Gostin, L. O., and K. G. Gostin. “A Broader Liberty: J. S. Mill, Paternalism, and the Public’s Health.” Public Health, vol. 123, no. 3, 2009, pp. 214-21, doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2008.12.024.

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