I have an MLA citation question. I am working on a research paper, and I have a citation problem. In my paper, I cite two works with the same title written by different authors. I also, in the same paper, cite other works written by those same authors. Because of this, I can't use either author name or title alone in my parenthetical citations, since if I did, there would be at least one other text that could be cited the same way. Should I use both author and title in the in-text citations? If so, how would I format them?

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I have an MLA citation question. I am working on a research paper, and I have a citation problem.  In my paper, I cite two works with the same title written by different authors. I also, in the same paper, cite other works written by those same authors.  Because of this, I can't use either author name or title alone in my parenthetical citations, since if I did, there would be at least one other text that could be cited the same way. Should I use both author and title in the in-text citations? If so, how would I format them?

anonymous · Answer

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/ That link should answer your questions. If it doesn't you may want to check that you are citing the correct way for MLA.