Author unknown

In-text citation

A popular keystroke logging program operates invisibly on workers’ computers yet provides supervisors with details of the workers’ online activities (“Automatically”).

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Either use the complete title in a signal phrase or use a short form of the title in parentheses. Titles of books are italicized; titles of articles are put in quotation marks.

Works cited entry

“Automatically Record Everything They Do Online! Spector Pro 5.0 FAQ’s.” Netbus.org. Netbus.Org, n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2006.

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Note on authors of Web sources

Before assuming that a Web source has no author, do some detective work. Often the author’s name is available but is not easy to find. For example, it may appear at the end of the source, in tiny print. Or it may appear on another page of the site, such as the home page.

Also see Corporate author.

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