Brackets are used to explain words referenced prior to the quote in the passage.
Milly must squeeze in ". . . as many pulsations as possible into a given time" (Pater 153).
In his letter to Gosse, Henry James addresses and imagines Pater’s continuing
potency throughout time:
He reminds me, in the disturbed night of our actual literature, of one of those
lucent matchboxes which you place . . . near the candle, to show you, in the
darkness, where you can strike a light: he shines in the uneasy gloom
—vaguely, and has a phosphorescence . . . . he is not of the little day—but
of the longer time. (293)
Thus James continues to play with notions of temporality.
Double-space and indent quotes that are longer than 4 lines within the text. There is no need to place them in quotation marks. Include the page number and author (if not in text) in parentheses at the end.
Mead puts forth a more permeable social self unlike James's more or less rigid "concrete particular I's and you's" ( 226).
Mead puts forth a more permeable social self unlike the more or less rigid "concrete particular I's and you's" (James, 226).
Include a partial title so that the reader knows which one is referred to on the Works Cited page.
They aimed to prove the "essential goodness of humanity" ("Transcendentalism" 46).
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MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. 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.
An MLA in-text citation provides the author’s last name and a page number in parentheses. If a source has two authors, name both. If a source has more than two authors, name only the first author, followed by “ et al. ” If the part you’re citing spans multiple pages, include the full page range.
To cite an essay with an author in a textbook with authors rather than editors, follow the MLA format template and list the authors of the textbook in the “Other contributors” slot: Graff, Gerald.
An in-text citation is a reference to a source that is found within the text of a paper ( Handbook 227). This tells a reader that an idea, quote, or paraphrase originated from a source. MLA in-text citations usually include the last name of the author and the location of cited information.
In-text citations are inserted in the body of your research paper to briefly document the source of your information. In-text citations in MLA style follow the general format of author's last name followed by a page number enclosed in parentheses.
In-text citations are brief, unobtrusive references that direct readers to the works-cited-list entries for the sources you consulted and, where relevant, to the location in the source being cited.
To cite your sources in an essay in MLA style, you need to have basic information including the author’s name(s), chapter title, book title, editor(s), publication year, publisher, and page numbers. The templates for in-text citations and a works-cited-list entry for essay sources and some examples are given below:
In MLA, in-text citations are inserted in the body of your research paper to briefly document the source of your information. Brief in-text citations point the reader to more complete information in the works cited list at the end of the paper.
An in-text citation usually contains the author's name (or other first element in the entry in the works cited list) and a page number. A parenthetical citation that directly follows a quotation is placed after the closing quotation mark. No punctuation is used between the author's name (or the title) and a page number. In-Text Citation Examples.
In-text citations should show precisely where you used others' ideas and words. These in-text citations should refer the reader to the source on the Works Cited page and, in most cases, provide the reader the exact location of the idea or quote within the source itself.