Citating in Text - Trial One

The MLA style of citation is cumbersome
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DOCUMENTING SOURCES
CITING SOURCES IN THE BODY OF YOUR RESEARCH PAPER

Recommended method of documenting sources.

The recommended method of documenting sources for MLA style research papers uses parenthetical cites in the body of paper, consisting of the author's last name, and the specific page on which the cited material is located. Notice how the parenthetical citations "refer" to an entry in the List of Works Cited. Sample parenthetical citations with a List of Works Cited.

Parenthetical references should include the author(s) last name and the specific page on which the cited material is located, as illustrated in this paragraph:

Nothing seemed so certain as the results of the early studies (Smith 445). 

It was precisely this level of apparent certainty, however, which led to 

a number of subsequent challenges to the techniques used to process the 

data (West and Peters 879). There were a number of fairly obvious flaws 

in the data: consistencies and regularities that seemed most irregular, 

upon close scrutiny (Data Darning 884; Wills, Ork and Ilis 457). 


Works Cited
Data Darning. San Francisco: Association of Concerned Scientist, 2002.

Smith, Michael R. "Cooking the Data." Citizen Science Monitor 8.2(2003): 

         430-478.

West, Alice M., and James Peters. A Study of Certainty: Taking Another Look

         at the Marriage of Business and Science. New York: Preston Press, 2003.

Wills, O. E., Felix Ork, and William Ilis. "Testing the Basics of Data Analysis."

         New Culture Gazette 2 (2004): 424-460.

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