Mla Citation with No Author

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Here’s the big secret: when there’s no author, you just use the title of the work. Yes, the whole title. Or a shortened version of it. Think of the title as the shy friend who’s now forced to speak for the group.

Put it in quotation marks if it’s a short work – an article, a poem, a blog post. Italicize it if it’s a standalone thing, like a book, a website, or a movie. For example: “Global Warming Myths Debunked” inside your sentence, or The Little Book of Calm.

And hey, here’s a pro tip: if the title is ridiculously long, you can shorten it. Just make sure the first word of your shortened title matches the first word of the full title in your Works Cited page. Don’t get cute and chop out the key nouns. MLA will come for you. (Okay, it won’t. But your professor might.)

What About Page Numbers?

Same rules apply! If you’re quoting or paraphrasing from a page, slap that page number in there. So it looks like this: (“Shortened Title” 42). No author? No problem. Just the title and the page number, cozily chilling together in parentheses.

No page number either? Then just the title inside parentheses. Or weave it into your sentence. Like this: In the article “Why Cats Are Actually Aliens,” the author argues… Wait. There is no author. Fine: “Why Cats Are Actually Aliens” argues that… See? You’re already doing it.

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