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Which in-text citation is formatted correctly in MLA style?

Odysseus and his men “slept again above the wash of ripples.(Homer 68).”
Odysseus and his men, “slept again above the wash of ripples.(Homer 68)”
Odysseus and his men, “slept again above the wash of ripples.” Homer (68)
Odysseus and his men “slept again above the wash of ripples” (Homer 68).

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The fourth option is correct:

Odysseus and his men “slept again above the wash of ripples” (Homer 68).

Explanation: In MLA, the parenthetical citation contains author and page number with no comma, and the sentence-ending period comes after the closing parenthesis. If the author is named in the sentence, only the page number goes in the parentheses.