How about in the same paragraph? This is the case where we have a citation, and
then in the same paragraph, we have the same citation again. How can we handle
that? Romeo and Juliet presents an opposition between two worlds: (quote) the
"the world of the everyday and the world of romance" (close quote).
So here we have a quote, right? Although the two lovers are part of a world of
romance, their language of love nevertheless becomes fully responsive to
the tang of actuality. Okay, we have two quotes. Here is one quote. Here is a
second quote. Those quotes must be from different pages. If they're from
different ages, then we need to have the page number of each one, and we do. Here
is Zender, and then the first quote is from one 138, and the second quote is
from 141. And how do we separate that? With a comma. So very interesting,
different from APA, very different,and that is name of the author, no comma, and
then the first quote, the second quote, separated by a comma. Let me clear this
up here.Within a single paragraph, different page locations, and you can
omit the name. So for example, Romeo and Juliet presents an opposition between
two worlds, and here we say the world of everyday associated with the adults in
the play, and the world of romance associated with the two lovers. And here
we have (Zender, 138). So this is one quote that is from 138. Romeo and Juliet's
language of love nevertheless becomes fully responsive. This is the second
quote. So here we have the author and the location page 138.
And here we have the second quote, which is on page 141.
However, because we've already showed the author, we don't need to write the author
again in the same paragraph. So in the same paragraph. Key point, just like in
APA, we don't have to write it all over again, but we do need to be specific if
it's a different location, and in this case, a different quote. According to
Karl F. Zender, Romeo and Juliet presents an opposition between two
worlds. Here we begin a quote: "the world of the everyday,: associated with adult
in the play and "the world of romance." We have two quotes associated with two
lovers, and here we say 138. Romeo and Juliet's language of love
nevertheless becomes "fully responsive." Here's another quote 141. So
here this is kind of the similar case, but what have we done differently? Here
is the author's name here. According to Karl F. Zender. We've given the author
here. Now we could write out just Zender, but in this case we've written out his
whole name, which is okay if that's the way you want to write it, and we have quotes
from him, but these first two quotes are from the same page which is 138,
and then the second, the third quote actually, is over here. Here is 141
We don't need to write the author's name again, because it's in the
same paragraph. What if you're going to repeat sources? Within a single paragraph,
no other source intervenes, then you can use the reference over again. So we've
kind of talked about this already, but just be more specific: In MLA, we're
actually saying that inside one paragraph, if you use the same reference
again, you do not need to repeat information if there's no other
references in between-- a little bit confusing, right?
But I think the general rule of thumb is easy to understand, watch out when do
you need to repeat.