Question

A professor gave us an assignment based on one of three websites. The website I chose has multiple pages, each with a title, but none of the pages have titles. When citing a fact or quotation from a certain page, should I use the page's title in the in-text citation?

Answer 1

No. When citing websites, you don't refer to pages or sections, etc. Just the website, as follows --

You need to have each source of information <b>cited in TWO places</b>:

1. <b>the Works Cited page</b> that is placed after the last page of your paper, and
2. <b>in parentheses in the text of your paper</b>, immediately after the quotation or paraphrase.

For example, this would go on the Works Cited page (with proper indentation for the second and following lines):

Du Bois, W.E.B. <i>The Souls of Black Folk</i>. Chicago, 1903. <i>Project Bartleby</i>. Ed. Steven van Leeuwen. Dec. 1995. Columbia U. 2 Dec. 2003
<www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/dubois/>.

... and this would go immediately after the quotation or whatever:
(Du Bois)

The information in parentheses in the text needs to be as brief as possible. That's why there's a Works Cited page – for all the details of the listing.

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Here's a good place for information on citing in MLA format:
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Hold your cursor over the words <b>CITING SOURCES</b> in the left column and then click on whatever type of source you need help with. Many examples will show up. You will get two examples for each type of reference – one for the Works Cited page and one for the parenthetical (in-text) citation.