Author(s). “Title of Article.” Title of Collection. Ed. Editor’s Name(s). Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. Pages.

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There are three ways to cite sources in your term paper (ask your professor which he/she prefers). The first and simplest style, recommended by the MLA, is to cite the author and page number in parentheses within your text: “Millicent Marcus argues that, in the tale of Alatiel (II.7), language works to control and to temper the power of passion (Marcus, 14).” With in-text citations, you must also include a bibliography with full citations at the end of your paper. If your bibliography includes two or more works by the same author, you should include the year of the referenced work in your in-text citation so as to differentiate between the two.

A second method of citing your sources is to have footnotes at the bottom of each page. The first time you cite a source in your footnotes, you should cite it in its entirety: “Joan M. Ferrante, “Narrative Patterns in the Decameron,” Romance Philology 36:4 (1983): p. 521-539.” Thereafter, you may simply refer to the same source by writing the author’s last name and the page number, as in the in-text citations.

The final way to cite sources within a paper is to use endnotes; these are essentially the same as footnotes, but appear together on a separate page at the end of your paper. If you choose to use either endnotes or footnotes, a separate bibliography is not essential since you have already included full bibliographic information for every source the first time it was cited.