Work with no page numbers (MLA)

MLA-46

In-text citation

Michael Pollan points out that “cheap food” actually has “significant costs—to the environment, to public health, to the public purse, even to the culture.”

Explain

  • Do not include a page number if a work lacks page numbers, as is the case with many Web sources.
  • If a Web site numbers its paragraphs or screens, give the abbreviation “par.” or “pars.” or the word “screen” or “screens” in the parentheses: (Smith, par. 4).
  • Do not use page numbers from a printout from a Web site because not all printouts give the same page numbers.
  • When the pages of a Web source are stable, as is the case with many PDF files, supply a page number in your in-text citation.

Works cited entry

Pollan, Michael. “The Food Movement, Rising.” The New York Review of Books, 10 June 2010, www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/06/10/food-movement-rising/.

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