Work by One Author  
Give the author’s last name and the page number in parentheses.

Trains were once popular modes of transportation (White 8). 

If you mention the author’s last name in the sentence, give only the page number in parentheses.

According to Larry White, trains were once popular modes of transportation (8).

Work by More than One Author  
Give the authors’ last names in the same order as stated on the Works Cited page and the page number in parentheses: (Jones and Miller 639). If a source has more than three authors, give the first author’s last name follow by et al. and the page number: (Jones et al. 88)

Work with No Author Given 
Give the title (or a shortened version of it) and the page number: (Railroads 11)

One of Two or More Works by the Same Author  
Give the author’s last name, the title or a shortened version of it, and the page number: (Reese, Planes 25)

Corporate Author 
If a book or other work was written by a committee or task force, it is said to have a corporate author. If the corporate name is long, include it in the text (rather than in parentheses) to avoid disrupting the flow of writing. Use a shortened form of the name in the text and in references after the full name has been used at least once. Example: Use Education Committee in place of Education Committee Task Force for Secondary Rural Schools after the full name has been used at least once.

The finding of the Education Committee's report proves that students in rural school have fewer cases of violence than inner city schools.

Cite verse, plays, and poems by division--act, scene, canto, book, part--and line, using Arabic numerals for the divisions unless otherwise instructed. Use periods to separate the various numbers. If citing lines only, use the word line or lines in the first reference and numbers in additional references.

In the second act of the play, Sammy says, "I don’t care/Why should you?" (2.3.144-45).

Note: A diagonal line is used to show each new line of verse. 

Verse quotations of more than three lines should be indented one inch (ten spaces) and double-spaced.

Each line of the poem or play begins a new line of the quotation; do not run the lines together.

William Beauchamp’s poem "The Ocean" contains layer upon layer of specific details:

The Ocean was blue ` Beyond the horizon.

Only we could not see

The bright orange sun,. . . (12-13)

Literary Works: Prose 
To site prose (novels, short stories, etc.), list more than the page number of the work available in several editions. Give the page reference first, and then add a chapter, section, or book number in abbreviated form after a semicolon.

In The Car Wreck, Juan Carlos describes the emotional trauma of the incident as "no squealing of tires, only gnashing metal penetrated the lives of the two young women" (23; ch. 3). 

When quoting prose that takes more than four typed lines, indent each line of the quotation one inch (10 spaces) and double space it. In this case, put the parenthetical citation outside the end punctuation mark of the quotation itself.

Two or More Works Cited at the Same Place 
Use a semicolon to separate the entries:  (Morris et al. 89; Riley)

Electronic Sources 
Give the author’s last name, or if no author is named, give the title:  ("Ocean Storms")