See Purdue OWL: MLA Formatting and Style Guide - MLA In-Text Citations: The Basicsfor detailed explanations and examples of in-text citations from different sources. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information: Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).īoth citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263). Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).
The author's name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. This means that the author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This method involves placing relevant source information in parentheses after a quote or a paraphrase. In MLA style, referring to the works of others in your text is done by using what is known as parenthetical citation. Decide on a Citation Style Toggle Dropdown
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