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/