Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Regina playwrights take active role. In MLA style , you acknowledge your sources by including parenthetical citations within your text. These refer the reader to the alpabetical list of works cited, or bibliography, that appears at the end of the document. Parenthetical references should be kept as brief as clarity will permit.
Some scholars prefer to use endnotes and footnotes to document sources.
If you use this method of documentation you may not need a List of Works Cited at the end of your paper. Check your instructor's preference. After full documentation has been given for a work, a shortened form is used in subsequent notes. The information included must be enough to identify the work. The author's last name alone, followed by the relevant page numbers, is usually adequate.