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Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

When a source has no known author, use a shortened title of the work instead of an author name. Place the title in quotation marks if it’s a short work, or italicize or underline it if it’s a longer work.

Your in-text citation will correspond with an entry in your Works Cited page, which, for the Burke citation above, will look something like this:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley: U of California P, 1966.

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Here’s the link for that where you can see it a little better.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/02/

You can search google for MLA style or parenthetical citation which is what MLA asks for.

Hope this helps,

David