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Anonymous asked in Education & ReferenceQuotations · 1 decade ago

Help with MLA in text citation and works citied?

I have been trying to google this with no luck, and I'm use to using APA format

I'm using a website for a computer program (I'm writing about different things you can do with the program and comparing) and I have been using a number of different pages of this website all of which do not have an author listed so I'm not sure how I'm suppose to cite paraphrased sentences. I'm guessing (Unknown 1) and then in the works sited Unknown 1 and the name of the page.

Is this how I'm suppose to or can I just cite the entire website?

Thank you!

Update:

so in the in text citation I can just put the website name in brackets and just site the entire website?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Do not put unknown!

    As a teacher, I can tell you this area is ever evolving since MLA was created for print media. The current rule is:

    For works cited page where there is no author: Start with the title (italics for books, quotes for articles)

    Example: "Title of Web Page." Title of the Site. Editor. Date and/or Version Number.

    Name of Sponsoring Institution. Date of Access

    For in text citation: Use the article name/book name following the same rules as above. You put the page number if the internet source is numbered. Remember, the purpose of the in text citation is to point to the reader to the correct source on the works cited page.

    If you have no pages, you don't refer to them in your in text citation.

    Just a note: the full url is no longer required on the works cited page, unless that is a requirement of your professor. So check with him/her about that.

  • dolme
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    In In-text fabric citations, you won't be able to abbreviate the identify of any article, any area of the article, or paraphrase. Sorry to be the single to enable you recognize this, yet as having written numerous MLA formatted papers, i understand that there's no way available which you would be able to abbreviate the identify of any article.

  • 1 decade ago

    You put the main name of the site, or the name of the article, if there isn't an authors name.

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