What are in-text citations?
"The second major component of MLA documentation style is the insertion in in your text of a brief reference that indicates source you consulted. The in-text citation should direct the reader unambiguously to the entry in your works-cited list for the source" (p 54)
The parts of the in-text citation are:
the author's name + the page number
EXAMPLE: Miller stated that the Choctaw schools had been "taken over by the Federal Government by 1906" (344)
EXAMPLE: The Choctaw schools had been "taken over by the Federal Government by 1906" (Miller, 344)
For more information see Purdue's Online Writing Lab page on in-text citations
