Work with page numbers (MLA)

MLA-45

In-text citation

As health policy experts Mello et al. point out, opposition to food and beverage regulation is similar to the opposition to early tobacco legislation: the public views the issue as one of personal responsibility rather than one requiring government intervention (2602).

Explain

  • If a source has numbered pages, usually provide the author’s name in a signal phrase and a page number in parentheses.
  • Give a page number for a quotation from the source as well as for a summary or paraphrase of the source.
  • If you do not include the author’s name in a signal phrase, include it in the parentheses with the page number: (Hutchins 42).
  • For a work with more than two authors, use "et al." after the first author's name either in the signal phrase or in the parentheses.

Works cited entry

Mello, Michelle M., et al. “Obesity—the New Frontier of Public Health Law.” New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 354, no. 24, 2006, pp. 2601-10, www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMhpr060227.

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