hello friends welcome back to the channel in today's video what we're going to be doing is talking about the basics of mla citation for in class now in a previous video and I would recommend you check that video out if you haven't yet we talked about we talked about mla citation for the work cited page so in MLA there are two kinds of citations one is in-text citation the other is end text citation and excitation is the works cited page and like I said we've we've discussed them in text citation is how you cite your
sources when you quote them now they're a little bit tricky but there are some general principles that you can follow that will help make things a little bit easier so one of the things I'm going to do is walk you through how you can quote something both with with page numbers and with about page numbers so jumping into this first place we'll start is the owl the owl like I said in my last video is the number one resource online for all of your MLA needs so again the easiest way for you to do to
find it is to google MLA owl and it'll be the top one so the MLA formatting and style guide at Purdue Writing Lab so from there I'm gonna go over here and find in text citations basis alright so the important thing for you to know about the in-text citations is that they have a one-to-one correlation with the works cited page so essentially what you're putting in next to your quotes is just a reference for your reader to go at the bottom of the page and find that information so let's take a look yeah I have
a sample article here that I'm gonna I can cite and then I'll show you what I what I will do with it so I'll try not to have the the try not to have my face color everything like it isn't last whoops okay so we want to make sure everything's Times New Roman everything is 12-point font all right and so let's say I was saying this our hostess I'm just checking to see if there's any parent company behind the Associated Press it doesn't look like there is so that's today's events I'll take another source I
just realized I want to show you share a different example with you all right okay so let's say that this is my this is my works cited entry this is going to be helpful so that when we cited it later we can tell what's going on I'm going to find one more website here and then okay so this article I'm going to cite is one all so in this case you might be wondering like what are you doing I'll show you all right and then the last one that I'm going to cite is this one
just a few more signs okay so never act excited and we're gonna try to continue the video over that over there we'll see how that works so anyway now that I have these these worksite countries I'm going to be able to show you how you can do an in-text citation so let's start with the news article so let's pretend I'm running a paper that's all I'll use that later okay so I've got to pull here and so I'm let's say I'm running an aircraft about the about Trump's a situation here so the basics of what
you needed in each includes a citation is what's wrong dogs the basics of what you need in each in-text citation is the author's last name and the page number so if I'm quoting this article what I'll do is I'll write a sentence that's like president Trump passed legislation to Richie help and then here's my quote I funding a program laughs so in this case I have included a quote now it is time for me to include my citation so according to MLA and even author's last name and I need a page number it's possible now
let's see what's going on with three or more ah okay after three or more I can lift lists with the other one or I can I don't have to list the last one so in actuality this one down here where I said Taylor and Andrew this actually all because it's more than its scheme even professor Hogan doesn't have all the answers all the time anyway as it Trump passages so this is three or more offers so I'm gonna included offers last name so in this case the first author's name is Taylor and notice how I
moved this period from inside the quote marks to outside the core marks that's what I'm gonna need to cite there now here's the question what about the page header where's the patient where's the page number I'm looking I'm looking I don't see any page numbers trick question if it doesn't have page numbers don't worry about it that's it that's it that's all you need to do in the in-text citation now here are some other alternative ways you can do it so what if you mention the author's name in the article so what if you mentioned
the name of the author in the article so that's something you could do as well so I can set this quote up like according to Taylor so according to Taylor at all at The Associated Press this program bubble bubble bubble in that case that I don't even have to include the Taylor as I've already said it was Taylor up here I don't have to put anything at the end of the quote because the whole point is when I say Taylor appear in my quote my reader can go down to my work cited page is Taylor
in the works cited entry and see what I'm trying what I'm who I'm referencing in what I'm talking about so that's how that works now that's for an article that doesn't have page numbers for an article that does have page numbers let's look at this Fox article so this is an article I used a while ago because I used to teach about a unit on gender in media so let's just grab this so let's crab this is amol so here what I'm going to do is because this is one that has page numbers there right
it's annoying okay so here I set up a limited research has addressed the effects of interaction actually with a behaving virtual human in the context of a controlled experiment so now what I'm going to do is I mean wrote this it was Fox and bailenson and that was on page 148 so Fox Allanson 158 so in this case I have included their last names and page number now to mind there's no comma there's no that there's no that there's no last name agent Lee that's it now similarly to the upper one if you mention the
author's name that changes the way that that changes the way that you do the in-text citation this apply is gonna drive me nuts so let's let's get rid of this and so it's just 148 so here you could say so here I mentioned fox and a Lanson there so I didn't mention them here but I still had the page number at st. that's the same way that you would do it in in your source so still if someone wants to figure out where I found my information they find Fox and Bay listen up here and
they would go down and find Fox and Bay listen come here that's how this works all right now that's with people who have authors but sometimes you're gonna have sources that don't have an author and so that's what I'm gonna walk next so here what you see is the Centers for Disease Control which wrote this one this thing about you now this is what is called a corporate author so sometimes what ends up happening is the person who's writing the article or the document or whatever it's not like an actual author it's like a company
and so it's you know it's like Jenny the intern who's writing the document or it's like a big corporate document so that like there's a bunch of people who are working on it and they don't cite a specific person in this case in this case okay no no neither so when there's no known author you can do one of two things one is you can just list the title or an abbreviated part of the title in the parenthesis alternatively if there is a corporate author see a corporate author means that like organization wrote it it's
acceptable to use the name of the operation followed by the page number if there is one so in this case what you could do here when you're quoting the president's thing would you see let's grab that down there which was school operations so let's say this quote so one of the things that I can do is I can cite this as I could cite this as presidents coronavirus all right so in this case I cited the title of the piece alternatively what I could do is I could do the same quote and I could say
CDC and CDC that's an abbreviation of Centers for Disease Control what you do want to do though and this is where MLA gets a little tricky um there's some optional stuff this is the first thing essentially whatever goes in the parentheses should be the first thing that appears in the work cited page so if I actually wanted to cite this this way I would do this so that the president's coronavirus guidelines for America as the first thing that's a little bit of a kind of an esoteric nuance there just so you know so leet that's
your options for citing something without a statement author also the same rules apply when you're when you mention the author's name or even the organization's name in the sentence so for instance I could change this schools must be closed as the CDC and Isis and so because I said this here and there's no page number nothing doesn't there that says um okay you're you're gonna have to practice with this here and I'm not expecting you to know everything as soon as you're done with the video is what it is right the last thing I want
to go over here is how to cite an indirect citation so one thing that they have here is over here or they're quoting Trump but so sometimes what you're gonna want to say is something like this so let's say so what happens if the person who wrote the article is not the same person they deployed that's a kind of an important distinction so here's this quote that tremendous victory it's wonderful it's beautiful alright so here we can say the president held the legislation as a tremendous victory all right so in this case the difficulty is
that I'm quoting the president but the president didn't write the article hailer rookie article Taylor Fran and fracking wrote the article so in this case I would do this quoted in Taylor because in this case what I want the people to do is figure out whether I caught at both so when I say quotidian I'm saying that Taylor at all wrote the article even though they're quoting the president so you would go down to my work cited page and find Taylor and you'd be fine um now say you didn't mention the president here so you
could say let's just say the legislation was a so in this case it would be I would write Trump hold it in Taylor at all so I would put his last name there if I needed it on to explain hate reporting Trump then mention isn't in here but then it was quoted again Taylor at all just like that so those are your basic MLA in-text citation hacks for you one more I'll go over all right so let's say I'm quoting a lot of text here we go and I'm gonna show you how to organize what
is called a block quote so if you have more than three lines of text so here here here right you see this is one two three four five full lines of text and a little bit on the sixth so in this case you don't actually use boat marks like you normally would instead what you have to do is this so you would say something like so you set up the quote like anything like you would anyway and then what you do is you actually indent the entire quote one inch and then you follow it up
with the page number that's because it was now notice even though on the other on the other version what I did this I use I put the period on the other side when you're doing a block like this you want to put the period here and the parentheses there I don't know why it's because that's the way it is the way Emily wants it and then and you keep on explaining myself so here what I've got is I've introduced the the source appear Oh crud I didn't mention that mother spoons same rules apply to whether
we mentioned the author's names as you do in the block code so here what you got is I have there's no footmarks period goes before the parentheses and I've indented everything essentially what this does is it makes it a little bit easier for you to tell the difference between the quote and the the rest of the text now I would use this very sparingly because usually people don't want to read a paper that has like giant walls of quotes um most papers will maybe use like one maybe two block quotes for like every ten pages
so if you have a block quote in your beast essay I'm expecting you to have maybe one maybe two but no more than that for short essays most people don't need a block quote usually what they do is they figure out what's the most important thing for them to talk about and then they trim the both subs so they only use the parts that they need but either way because I already had the the video open I wanted to go over that part with you so if you have any more questions about in-text citations let
me know and you can refer back to this this video when you get the chance alright thanks for the for watching and I'll talk to you later
