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MLA In-Text Citations, Works Cited, and Other Random Examples

Typical In-Text Citation

In his own attempt to classify the novel, Thomas Keymer, in his study Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel, writes, “Although I dispute identifications of Tristram Shandy as a solitary postmodern anticipation or a Renaissance/Scriblerian throwback, I do indeed see it as heavily conditioned by satirical traditions that culminate in Swift, and I also see it as a self-conscious exercise in metafiction” (7).

In-Text without an Author Introduction

Though some may debate the identification of Tristram Shandy “as a solitary postmodern anticipation or a Renaissance/Scriblerian throwback,” this essay should make this point clear (Keymer 7).

Shortening a Longer In-Text Citation Using Ellipses

However, Wallace continues, “All of this is true. The book is really true […] That The Pale King is, in point of fact, more like a memoir than any kind of made-up story” (66).

However, Wallace continues, “All of this is true. The book is really true. In other words, this Foreword is defined by the disclaimer as itself fictional, meaning that it lies within the area of special legal protection established by that disclaimer. I need this legal protection in order to inform you that what follows is, in reality, not fiction at all, but substantially true and accurate” That The Pale King is, in point of fact, more like a memoir than any kind of made-up story” (66).

A Long In-Text Citation (Block Quotes)

However, the race itself takes on a much more important meaning to Smith. For Smith, each run is “a little life” (19) and during the race he thinks:

And the winning post was no end to it…because on you had to go before you got your breath back, and the only time you stopped really was when you tripped over a tree trunk and broke your neck of fell into a disused well and stayed dead in the darkness forever. So I thought: they aren’t going to get me on this racing lark…because it’s not the way to go on at all, though they swear blind that it is. You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people. (44)

Quote inside a Quote

Smith states, “The solution is not that pragmatic, or as Thomas believes, ‘It’s not a band-aid’ and that challenges any proposed solutions” (67).

Example Works Cited Page

Works Cited

Keymer, Thomas. Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel. New York: Oxford UP, 2002. Print.

Piper, William Bowman. “Tristram Shandy’s Digressive Artistry.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 1.3. (Summer 1961): 65-76. Print.

Preston, John. “Tristram Shandy (i): The Reader as Author.” The Created Self. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1970. 134-164. Print.

Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. London: Penguin, 2003. Print.

Thomas, Christopher. “Infinite Jests: David Foster Wallace and Laurence Sterne.” Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays. Los Angeles: Sideshow Media. 2010. Print.

Tristram Shandy. dir. Michael Winterbottom. Perf. Steve Coogan, Jeremy Northam, Rob Brydon. BBC Films, 2005. DVD.

Wallace, David Foster. Interview with Larry McCaffrey. “An Interview with David Foster Wallace.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction 31.2 (Summer 1993): 127-150. Print.

--- The Pale King. Ed. Michael Pietsch. New York: Little, Brown. 2011. Print.

Wright, Andrew. “The Artifice of Failure in Tristram Shandy.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 2.3 (Spring 1969): 212-220. Print.