MLA Citation Style

Examples:

Author's name in text: Dover has expressed this concern (118-21).

Author's name in reference: This concern has been expressed ( Dover 118-21).

Multiple authors of a work: This hypothesis (Bradley and Rogers 7) suggested this theory (Sumner, Reichl, and Waugh 23).

Two locations: Williams alludes to this premise (136-39, 145).

Two works cited: (Burns 54, Thomas 327)

Multivolume works:

References to volumes and pages: ( Wilson 2:1-18)

References to an entire volume: ( Henderson , vol. 3)

In text reference to an entire volume: In volume 3, Henderson suggests

Corporate authors: (United Nations, Economic Commission for Africa 51-63)

Works with no author

When a work has no author, use the work's title or a shortened version of the title when citing it in text. (If abbreviating a title, omit initial articles and begin with the word by which it is alphabetized in the Works Cited list.):

as stated by the presidential commission (Report 4).

Online source with numbered paragraphs: (Fox, pars. 4-5)