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MLA in-text citation help!?
I'm writing an essay with citations in MLA format. One of my sources is a novel by Cormac McCarthy and another of my sources is an interview with him, so in my bibliography, they both start with McCarthy (according to MLA).
When I do in-text citations in the essay, should I use the title of the novel for the first source and the title of the interview for the second source? I can't seem to find anything on the internet on how to deal with this particular situation.
Please help ASAP. Thanks!
1 Answer
- spiffer1Lv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
My method has been to do everything as alphabetically as possible.
Thus, if the title of the interview begins with a letter ahead (in the alphabet) of that of the novel you are citing, then I would cite it first.
Many of us do encounter such problems and have to make arbitrary decisions from time to time.
If you need more clarity on how to cite interviews in MLA, it is spelled out nicely in the source, mentioned below, but does not directly address your question. The main issue is doing the citation in such a way readers/markers can double check on the source material - when and if necessary.
Order in terms of alphabetization is necessary but sometimes we have to give some leeway to a particular author in certain cases (the author to whom I refer at this point being you).
Source(s): Gibaldi, Joseph - MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: Sixth Edition. New York: The Modern Language Association of America: 2003, 5.8.7, p. 202-203
