With MLA, we use parenthetical citations for in-text quoting or paraphrasing.
Basic Format:
(Lastname Page #).
(Lastname and Lastname Page #).*
*For sources with 3 or more authors, list only the first author followed by "et al."
*When quoting and paraphrasing in MLA you will typically mention an author and add (the page number) of where the idea or quote originates from at the end of the sentence but before the period.
Direct Quotation Example:
Discussing age-related digital inequalities, Antonio and Tuffley write, 'as governments migrate public-sector services exclusively to the online domain, not having access to or lacking the digital literacy skills to use electronic services will in all likelihood precipitate an age-related inequality" (3).
Paraphrasing Example:
Mathuews argues that diversity and human rights imperatives in academic libraries are too simplistic to attain a measure of true social justice (1104).
Both of these examples are direct quotations from the source below:
Jones, R. "Social justice in library science programs: A content analysis approach." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, vol. 52, no. 4, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000620904432. Accessed 7 Sept. 2021.