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Citing Keables (MLA) Style: In-Text Citations

Used by Grades 7 to 12, based on the MLA Handbook, 7th ed.

In-Text Citation Examples

Example of a Parenthetical Citation:

 Poet Ben Jonson seems to have introduced the word “plagiarism” into English, from a Latin word for a kidnapper or body-snatcher (Donaldson 16).

Hamlet is a controversial play.  At one extreme is T. S. Eliot, who called it “an artistic failure” (178).