If using MLA, it is recommended to follow these guidelines unless otherwise instructed by your professor.

Always follow your professor's guidelines.

When citing a source, use the author's last name and page number where possible. Do not repeat the authors name in the parenthetical citation if already stated in the sentence.

• Scheub concludes that oral traditions provide the social resonance for "great poets to bring elements of tradition to bear on these significant and dangerous transitional periods" (196).
• Scheub concludes that orators would use oral traditions as allegory during watershed periods of history (196).
• Oral traditions used as allegory provided significant social resonance during watershed periods of history (Scheub 196).

Multiple Authors:

• The Brothers Grimm did not treat each version of a tale as similarly valid, instead qualitatively judging versions in terms of artistic integrity, detail and which "corresponded better to the moral codes" of the time (Calvin and McAra 20).

No Author and Webpages:

If no author is given, use the title of the work. On a webpage where no page numbers are give, use the title of the work.

• Between antiquity and post-antiquity, mythology was treated with fundamentally different attitudes where in the former there was a strong connection between daily and religious life, and the latter as a source of themes in art and literature ("About Greek and Roman Mythology").

For more details and examples, see the Purdue Online Writing Lab.

Remember, when using a machine-generated citation, you are still responsible for the accuracy of information and format! Always double check these citations before you finish your paper.

• Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
• Citation Machine
• MLA Style Template