In-Text Citation Technique
When an Article has a single author and no pages, we place only this in parenthesis
Author's last name
Works Cited
When choosing a font, we want the letters to have tiny points on the ends, such as Times New Roman, the family of fonts with this is called this.
For an interview conducted by ourselves, we only place this after the name of the person interviewed
Personal Interview.
When there is no author listed and no page numbers, we place this.
The article title, in quotes, shortened
We use this to decide how to order our citations
Alphabetized, by first word
When we do a quotes that is four lines long or more, we drop the quotation marks and use this format
block quote
For a Youtube video without a clear author or source, we place this after the title of the video.
Uploaded by [Youtube username]
If we have already indicated the Author or article title in our text, but there are pages in the source, we place this.
Page number(s) in parenthesis
When there is no author for an article, we begin our citation with this
the article title, in quotes
For a block quote, the punctuation does not occur after the parenthesis, but here
At the end of the last sentence
Twitter gets treated just like an article, but all twitter users will have this symbol at the start of their username
@
When the quoted or summarized material is from a source the author of the article has indicated, we use this abbreviation in our parenthesis.
qtd. in
For a website, after the author, and article, we place this, in italics
The term used for a paragraph that has a quote in the middle, with topic and summary before and after.
Quote sandwich
A comment on an article gets cited with the username listed, but with these words before the article title to indicate it is a comment, not the author of the article
Commented on ["Article title"]
Longer works such as full length movies or books, do not go in quotes, but in this format.
Italics
After posting the URL, the final piece of information is this
Accessed: (date)
The MLA's recommended placement of the page numbers
Top right
For an email, we cite just like an article, but use this phrase before the recipient's name
received by