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If there is a by-line for the article you want to cite, your bibliographic citation should begin with the author's last name. Place a comma after the last name, then add the author's first name. End this portion of your citation with a period. Example: Kent, Clark. If there's no author, skip to the next element in the citation. After the name of the author, provide the full title of the article along with any subtitle. Separate the title and the subtitle (if any) with a semicolon. Use title-case, capitalizing nouns and verbs. Place a period after the end of the title, inside the quotation marks. Example: Kent, Clark. "Villains Take Over Gotham; Superman Stays Away." After the name of the article, identify the newspaper in which the article appeared. Even if you found the article online, use the name of the newspaper itself, not the name of the website. If the city isn't included in the name of the newspaper, include it in square brackets after the name of the newspaper. Place a comma after this part of your citation. If you include the city in italics, it isn't italicized. Example: Kent, Clark. "Villains Take Over Gotham; Superman Stays Away." The Daily Planet [Metropolis], After the name of the newspaper, type the date the article was published using day-month-year format. Place a comma, then type the page number on which the article appears. If there's no page number, place a period after the date. Example: Kent, Clark. "Villains Take Over Gotham; Superman Stays Away." The Daily Planet [Metropolis], 17 July 2017, p. A1. If the article appears online without a page number, simply place a period after the date of publication. Generally, MLA uses parenthetical citations within the text of your paper or presentation to refer your reader to the full citation in your Works Cited page. Example: (Kent, A1) If there's no author listed, place the first word or words of the title in quotation marks for your parenthetical. If there's no page number, simply leave that part out.
Start with the name of the author. Type the title of the article in quotation marks. Provide the name of the newspaper in italics. Include the date the article was published and the page number. Use the author's name and page number for in-text citations.