MLA Citations within text. +K

[andrew.]

hey, im writing a paper, and i need help with citations. if im citing a website, and i need to do a citation within the text, what do i do? i think you just put the website in quotations, but that seems too long for multiple citations, and it just doesnt seem right. +K if you help me out.

 

[MitchPee]

Here this site should help you out, I use it:http://www.palomar.edu/dsps/actc/mla/

Also when you use a line from it or idea just put parenthesis and the authors name in them.

 

[HenniferLopez]

this is what I always use:http://citationmachine.net/

 

[andrew.]

thanks, +k to both, but i need it within the text. like if i said:

blah blah blah and mr. smith says "rawrrrr im a fucking dinosaur!" (insert citation here)

idk if its just my school, but they ask for a citation there, then an extended citation in your works cited page at the end, and the stuff you guys gave me is for the works cited at the end.

 

[cmeriptahoe]

(Author year article publised, page number) like this (White 1993, 86)

 

[Download-My-Apps]

I think its paragraph instead of page number for MLA and websites soo

(Smith, par.4)

and then you do the full website info in works cited I think.

 

[Download-My-Apps]

you should ask a librarian at your school the proper way to be sure, I wouldn't be too trust in NS.

 

[cmeriptahoe]

How you supposed to figure out the paragraph number if the article is 40 pages long like the majority of scholarly articles? I'm almost 100% sure it is page number. And dont forget the year published.

 

[Download-My-Apps]

sorry if the article includes paragraph numbers and not page numbers.

 

[caucasian_chad]

When you use in-text citations, the period always goes after the citation unless you have a quote over four lines, but I won't get into that.

Here's how to do them for a website:

With an Author:

"Faunt got Bigger" (Skiierman par. 1).

It's the author's last name, followed by the paragraph number (you just count how many paragraphs down it is)(par. stands for paragraph, use pars. for multiple paragraphs, DO NOT CAPITALIZE THE P). If it's a PDF, use a page number, like this: (Skiierman 1) there is no pg. or pgs. when using a page number.

No Author:

"january 8th - 15th ish me and a few friends are gonna be out in alta.

need to know how to get to chads gap from alta base, or whether or not

its possible to ski to it" ("how do you get to chad's from the bottom of alta?," par.1).

For this, you use the full title, not changing the puctuation (if it's lower-case, leave it lower-case) and there are quotes around the title AND a comma after the title, inside the quotes(regardless of what punctuation mark may be there already). Otherwise, it is the same as with an author.

 

[caucasian_chad]

Sorry for the double post, but this site is very helpful as well:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

 

[KarmaInitiative]

I built a citation generator in my web design class last year

http://dimproductions.net/phpsite/citations/

Its a little buggy, but should to the job. For websites, you cant put the http://, you have to just do www, just like when you add a link on ns

 

[sconniestyle]

don't worry too much if it seems too long as long as you do it the correct way, sometimes it just works out stupid like that. i used to do that and then i realized that some citation methods are just ass backwards.

from what i remember, ^ that is how i did it all through college.

most universities have guides on the library homepage, so if it is for a uni, try there. if it is for hs, use one of the guides posted.

 

[Italian.Stallion]

Well I used (author, page #), but if you are in college, it may be different. Definitely ask your librarian, and this site may help.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/02/

 

[ChronicLines]

 

[skiP.E.I.]

just put the name of the website in brackets, because an in text citation just has to relate to the entry in your works cited page, so for example if you have "http://www.jstor.org/stable/30047725?&Search=yes&term=history&term=skiing&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dhist"ory%2Bof%2Bskiing%26x%3D9%26y%3D18%26wc%3Don&item=1&ttl=2475&returnArticleService=showArti
In your works cited, just put "(jstor)" or "(jstor.org)" as your in text citation, since the full address is in your works cited. That method has always worked for me.

 

[caucasian_chad]

Don't do that.

 

[jayo.]

you can get the normal ones and in text ones on citationmachine.net

 

[j.saaaarela]

ya, this is the best one. It'l show you paranthetical citationas as well as a full on citation. go try it out.

 

[pah1500]

No.

Do what Lakeeffect said.

(author, pg. #) - if it is an online journal

(article name, pg.#) - online journal w/ no author listed

(author, par. #) - online article w/o pages

(article name, par. #) - online article w/o author

 

[KarmaInitiative]

mine gives you in text refrences and it lets you build an alphabetized work cited page, check it out

http://dimproductions.net/phpsite/citations/

 

[Thenowhereman42]

If its a quote then you put it in quotation marks, paraphrasing you don't, and then afterwords you put the author's last name or website abbrieviation followed by the page number in parenthesis.

"blabaofgnwfgwo;gujhwblah blah blah" (Frost 21)

 

[toominator]

this site has a good run down on MLA referencing.

http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/mla.php

The most important thing when it comes to referencing is to be consistent in how you do it. If your references are a little bit wrong, but consistent throughout your paper, then you will get a better grade than having correct referencing but not consistent with the rest of your references.

 

[doritos]

Mr. Smith said "Rawr I'm a fucking dinosaur" on page 14. In your paper, you'd say...

One expert states, "Rawr I'm a fucking dinosaur," (Smith, 14).

 

[Thenowhereman42]

I've had some professors tell me to write (Smith, 14) as (Smith 14).

Most don't seem to care though.

 

[j.saaaarela]

I'm working on citationmachine.net right now for my quarterly 200 pt. essay in Honors English.....

It works great.

http://www.citationmachine.net

do it