In-text Citation! (MLA)

[Steam Colossus]

Here's my problem; I don't have a clue how to do in-text citation of an article from a database or website.
What information goes in the brackets?
I need your help people of the Escapist forums!


Got it! Thanks every one!

 

[Lilani]

Are you talking about parenthetical documentation?

 

[voetballeeuw]

Wait is this for a paper or for the Escapist?

If you're citing source for a paper ([Insert First Word of the title besides the, if there's now title, author's last name])

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I think I know what you're talking about. MLA format right? Well I can't remember exactly how to do it but I know if you google it you'll be able to find the right way to quote documents. It involves putting the name of the document, the author, the page number, the publisher, and a bunch of other stuff in a specific order. I find it incrediably annoying but I had to do it for school so, it had to be done.

 

[Berethond]

(Author, Title of Document, Page #) for the first citation. Subsequent citations are (Author, Page #)

 

[Feste the Jester]

You use the last name of the author and the page the quotation is from.

(last name page #)

 

[Danny Ocean]

Well you know they have an article on bbcode [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode] on wikipedia that has all the commands.

You're either looking for quote or footnote.

quote= if you want to title your quote, you do this

/quote

Without spaces.

As for referencing: If it's from a book:

Stuff

That's

Most of that can be found on the first page of the book.

After that it's just

This. If it's a particularly difficult to read book put the para number in there, too.

 

[CitySquirrel]

Here's my problem; I don't have a clue how to do in-text citation of an article from a database or website.
What information goes in the brackets?
I need your help people of the Escapist forums!

MLA is notoriously bad at documentation from websites. However, according to the 6th edition:

Authors name. "Title of document." Information about print publication. Information about electronic publication. Access information.

Access information is date of access and URL.

edit: BLAST! When did they release a 7th edition?

 

[Aur0ra145]

In post-modern warfare, the victor "attacks effectively first" (Till 52).

Okay.

For an article, use the authors last name and page number if it's long (Daniels 11), or paragraph number if it's short (Daniels 12).

Off of a website, if you have a by line of the article (Aur0ra145), use it; if not give the name of the article ("In-text"). If you don't have the name of the article, use the name of the website.


Or use this. http://www.easybib.com for the bib at the end.

Then refer to this, for any questions you might have later. http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/research/mlaparen.html

enjoy writing your paper

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

http://libguides.polk.edu/content.php?pid=54648&sid=693055

Here's a set of links on a community college website. They have examples of how to do the citations, and there's even some links at the bottom that you can use to have a computer generate your bibliography. Easybib makes a better bibliography, but the citation machine gives you a sample parenthetical citation. Word 2007 and up also have this stuff built in.

Edit: Whoops, I misread the first post. As was noted a few posts up, MLA is terrible at citing websites. The basic rule is, if you can get the author's name, just put that up and leave out the page number. If you can't, but it's still a reputable enough source to use in an MLA paper, just put up the URL. Databases are a special case, because they're usually electronic copies of physical journal articles, so you would cite those exactly like you would any other journal article.

 

[CitySquirrel]

Steampunkelephant, did you mean a database like JSTOR?

edit: oh your problem is solved...never mind.

 

[MikailCaboose]

Here's my problem; I don't have a clue how to do in-text citation of an article from a database or website.
What information goes in the brackets?
I need your help people of the Escapist forums!


Got it! Thanks every one!

Are you talking for here, on the escapist? Or for a paper?
For here, it's just the "[quote ] [ /quote]" before and after the thing.

EDIT: Wow, I completely missed your last sentence