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MLA Style: Basics

This guide is meant to be a brief introduction to MLA and to provide general formatting and citation guidelines for this manual of style.

Work by Two Authors

General Format

(AuthorLastNameA and AuthorLastNameB page#)

OR

AuthorLastNameA and AuthorLastNameB concluded in their study that ... (page#).

 

For Example

Russell and Winterbottom state in their introduction that .... (11).

OR

The authors state that ... (Russell and Winterbottom 11).

 

Corresponding Works Cited entry

Russell, D. A., and Michael Winterbottom. Classical Literary Criticism. Oxford UP, 2008.

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