AboutDan Smith Expertise I have been a professional writer and editor for more than 30 years, taught speech and English composition at the university level, and have developed speech and English composition courses and seminars for businesses. I am experienced in editing a wide variety of materials, especially business, scientific, and other academic papers. I am familiar with all the major style guides.
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Question How do you cite an online quote in-text and how do you cite that info in work cited? Can't seem to find it in MLA Handbook. Thank you so much.
Answer The current MLA handbook does have instructions on that. Online sources vary widely, however, so you have to make it look as much like a conventional citation as possible. If no author is specified, use the title of the article, followed by the site name, and then the rest of the information as appropriate. Be sure and include the URL and the date you accessed it. That's the bibliographic entry.
For the in-text citation, use author or title/date as appropriate. If it's by title, you have to include enough information to assure the reader can find the full citation in the bibliography.
The primary consideration is that the reader be able to find your source. I doubt if you'll get into trouble if provide enough information to assure that. But you really should make a more thorough search of the handbook and make sure you have the current version.
