IXL | Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)

Add an in-text citation using MLA format.

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Source: "Denali" by Tom Clynes, page 66. Published in National Geographic Feb. 2016:

Park rangers here call the high season—from June through early September, when Denali National Park and Preserve hosts the majority of its 500,000 annual visitors—the "hundred days of chaos."

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Add an in-text citation using MLA format.

To Annabelle, the silver dollar is more like a piece of jewelry than money iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifnn

Source: Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk, page 4. Published by Dutton Children's Books, New York 2016:

I had never put that silver dollar in my bank because I didn't think of it as money. It was like a medal that I imagined wearing someday, so beautiful was the woman on it, so splendid and serious in her spiky crown.

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When writing research papers, you will often be asked to follow a particular style guide for your citations. One popular style guide is the Modern Language Association (MLA) Handbook. Look at this source:

Source: The Giver by Lois Lowry, page 24. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, New York 1993:

Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged. The same size and shape: a perfect sphere. The same nondescript shade, about the same shade as his own tunic.

Usually, an in-text citation consists of the author's last name and the page number in parentheses.

The word "nondescript" is used to describe the apple's color (Lowry 24).

If the author is mentioned in the text, do not repeat the name in the citation.

Lowry uses the word "nondescript" to describe the apple's color (24).

Citations should go before any commas or periods, and they should go outside quotation marks.

Jonas sees the apple as a "nondescript shade" (Lowry 24).

Citations should go directly after the facts or ideas that are taken from the source, so they sometimes appear in the middle of a sentence. Citations should not go after your own ideas or analysis.

Jonas sees the apple as a "nondescript shade" (Lowry 24), which hints at the later revelation that color does not exist in Jonas's community.

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To Annabelle, the silver dollar is more like a piece of jewelry than money (Wolk 4).

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