The purpose of the in-text citation is to direct the reader to the full citation on your Works Cited page by creating a path from:
NOTE: Every source you use MUST have both an in-text (parenthetical) citation within the body of your paper and a full citation on your Works Cited page.
MLA Handbook 9th Edition / The Modern Language Association of AmericaAuthor Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Journal Title, volume number, issue number, Publication Date, pages. Database, URL.
Dewan, Pauline. “Perennially Popular The Appeal of Classic Fairy Tales for Children.” Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children, vol. 14, no. 2, Summer 2016, pp. 27–31. EBSCOhost, https://lib-proxy.sunywcc.edu:2590/10.5860/cal.14n2.27.
In-text citation (Dewan 29)
“Castles and palaces are the apex of the built world in fairy tales” (Dewan 29).
Author Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Journal Title, volume number, issue number, Publication Date, pages. Database, URL.
Sanyal, Nilanjana, and Manisha Dasgupta. “Fairy Tales: The Emotional Processors of Childhood Conflicts in Dynamic Interpretative Lens.” SIS Journal of Projective Psychology & Mental Health, vol. 24, no. 1, Jan. 2017, pp. 39–47. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=121809595&site=ehost-live.
In-text citation (Sanyal and Dasgupta 46)
“Fairy tales offer new dimensions to the child’s imagination which would be impossible for him to discover as truly on his own” (Sanyal and Dasgupta 46).
