How to cite a source with an author or authors

Author named in a signal phrase

Author named in parentheses

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

One-page source

Selection in an anthology

Multivolume work

Novel with numbered divisions

Literary work without parts or line numbers

Verse play

Poem

Sacred text

Work with no page numbers (Web source)

Web source with page numbers

Directory to MLA in-text citation models

Exercise: MLA documentation: in-text citations 1

Exercise: MLA documentation: in-text citations 2

Exercise: MLA documentation: in-text citations 3