Mla Citation Of Book In Text

If relevant also include the names of any editors or translators the edition and the volume.

Mla citation of book in text. An mla in text citation includes the author s last name and a page number. Write book titles within the text not in parenthetical citations. If you mention the author s last name within the sentence simply include the page number from the book or article in parentheses at the end of the sentence.

Additional information is needed when citing. Name of e book device. Mla modern language association style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities.

Publisher of the book. This resource updated to reflect the mla handbook 8 th ed offers examples for the general format of mla research papers in text citations endnotes footnotes and the works cited page. In mla in text citations are inserted in the body of your research paper to briefly document the source of your information.

Place the title in quotation marks if it s a short work such as an article or italicize it if it s a longer work e g. In text citations include the last name of the author followed by a page number enclosed in parentheses. For example in the novel being in love smith has defined love as a social impulse italicize being in love list the name of the author in parentheses along with the page number you are referencing.

Italicize the titles of books mentioned in the text. To do in text citations in mla provide the last name of the author and the page number the citation was pulled from in parentheses. Translated or edited books.

Plays books television shows entire web sites and provide a page number if it is available. Revised on november 20 2020. Published on june 28 2019 by shona mccombes.