Examples:
Direct quotation:
Reading is "just half of literacy. The other half is writing" (Baron 194).
Author mentioned directly in your paper as a signal phrase:
According to Naomi Baron, reading is "just half of literacy. The other half is writing" (194).
Author unknown:
When an entry on the Works Cited page begins with the title of the work because the author is unknown, use the work's title or a shortened version of the title in the parentheses.
Example: A powerful editorial in last week's paper asserts that healthy liver donor Mike Hurewitz died because of "frightening" faulty postoperative care ("Every Patient's Nightmare" 27).
Two authors:
(Smith and Jones 35).
Smith and Jones explain how powerful using a proofreader is for students' writing (35).
Three or more authors
(Roberts et al. 256)
According to Roberts and colleagues, the recipe...(256)
No author and no page number
This would be for an internet article with no pages.
("Cake").
In the article "Cake," the description...
Sources:
Bullock, Richard et al. The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises. W.W. Norton, 2014, pp.112, 115.
MLA Handbook Ninth Edition. Modern Language Association of America, 2021, p.230.