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BIOL 102 -- General Biology -- Gago / Kretzmann

This guide supports students in BIOL 102 on their labs for Spring '21 regarding the chaparral ecosystem in Los Angeles County, and conservation efforts for zoo animals..

In-text citation for a webpage (MLA style, 8th ed.)

To correctly cite sources using MLA style, you must include both an in-text citation and the full source citation.

The first step occurs while you're writing the main body of your answer or explanation. Each time that you include a fact, quote, chart, image, or other piece of information that you first saw in another source, you must pause at that moment and give credit to the original source. This is called the in-text citation because it's placed inside the main text of your project.

For MLA style, you must provide in-text, parenthetical citations each time you quote from, paraphrase, or summarize a source. For each source, give the author’s last name and page number, if available. If no page number is available, then write "n. pag."

Examples / Models:

Summarized information/data from this page:

The harpy eagle is not yet, in 2021, classified as fully endangered (International Union for Conservation of Nature n. pag.).

^ This is the preferred mode for in-text citation in science disciplines.

Directly quoted information from this page:

One writer describes a keystone species as providing "the glue that holds a habitat together" (Denchak n. pag.).

^ This mode is not encouraged to be used very often in science disciplines.

Notice: In MLA style, the period is always placed *after* the parenthetical citation. And there is no comma inserted between the author and the page number.

Click here to view the full corresponding citations for both of these sources.

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