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MLA 9th Edition Style Guide: Article

This guide will assist you in formatting in-text citations and a Works Cited list in the current MLA style.

Article

Citation in prose

Reading is never complete without writing (Goldman 72)

Parenthetical citation

According to Goldman, “reading is never complete without writing” (72).

Work cited

Goldman, Anne. “Questions of Transport: Reading Primo Levi Reading Dante.” The Georgia Review, vol. 64, no.

1, spring 2010, pp. 69-88. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41403188. 

Citation in prose

Reading is never complete without writing (Goldman 72)

Parenthetical citation

According to Goldman, “reading is never complete without writing” (72).

Work cited

Cardinal, Audrey, and Hannah Bains. “Orwell and a Future Vision.” General Science Today, vol. 64, no. 1,

spring 2010, pp. 69-88. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.35024/aslf.64.1.10.

Citation in prose

Reading is never complete without writing (Sharpe et al. 72).

Parenthetical citation

According to Lionel Sharpe and others, “reading is never complete without writing” (72).

Work cited

Sharpe, Lionel, et al. “Questions of Transport: Reading Primo Levi Reading Dante.” The Georgia Review, vol.

64, no. 1, spring 2010, pp. 69-88. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41403188.