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How to Include Page Numbers in MLA Format

Scholarship is a journey. You begin in a familiar place with the guidebooks of your sources and before you know it, you're in places you never expected or imagined. Then, like any traveler, when you return home, you're anxious to describe the perils and marvels of your adventure to others. That's where your guidebooks, your sources, come in. By citing your sources, you help readers follow along on your adventure of scholarship. When you're citing sources in Modern Language Association (MLA) style, be sure to include page numbers when appropriate and properly. Don't let your readers get lost.

Instructions

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      Place page numbers after the year when you're citing a scholarly journal in MLA style. For example, "Merchant, Abraham. 'Quarreling among Pink-Spotted Newts.' Journal of Slippery Studies 33.1 (2011): 11-13. Print."

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      Place a page number after the edition when you're citing a newspaper article in MLA style. Place a plus sign after the page number if the article is not printed on consecutive pages. For example, "Drab, Jim. 'Greasy but Good: Eating Your Way along Division Street.' Decatur Sentinel 13 Sept. 1991, late ed.: A7+. Print."

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      Place page numbers after the year of publication when you're citing a magazine article in MLA style. For example, "Venice, Marge. 'This Popover Is No Push-Over.' Cooking for Scoundrels 30 Oct. 2011: 57-59. Print."

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      Place page numbers after the year of publication when you're citing part of an anthology in MLA style. For example, "Wu, Jimmy. 'Bread and Mice.' Trans. Margo Withers. Chinese Supper Poets. Ed. Bailey West. Paris: Rue Editions, 2001. 73-75. Print."

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      Place page numbers after the year of publication when you're citing the introduction, preface, foreword or afterword of a book in MLA style. For example, "Zenk, Beebe. Foreword. The Engineers. By Ginny Blithe. Elgin, OH: Lawnboy Press, 1971. iv-vii. Print."

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