Mla Citation Book Without Page Numbers

Web sources in particular may omit page numbers from text.

Mla citation book without page numbers. Or if the source uses paragraph numbers on the page you would type par or a section number preceded by sec without the quotation marks and the number with no punctuation between. In such cases mla format allows you to leave out the page number from the citation. You may also use a shortened version of the title of the book accompanied by the page number.

Some sources such as online materials won t have page numbers provided. An mla book citation always includes the author s title italicized publisher and publication year in the list of works cited. If a work such as a website does not include page numbers then omit this portion of the in text citation.

The in text citation gives the author s last name and a page number in parentheses. To cite a single page and pp. If you were citing a book or magazine you would included the page number on which you found the information but there are times when a source doesn t have page numbers such as webpages.

No page numbers 8th edition. Marx used class in two different ways calvert. Revised on november 20 2020.

For your in text citation just use the author s name or the title of the work if there is no author given. Use the abbreviation p. The author s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase but the page number s should always appear in the parentheses not in the text of your sentence.

If relevant also include the names of any editors or translators the edition and the volume. If this is the case leave the page numbers out of the citation. To cite multiple pages.