How do I create an in-text citation if there are no page numbers in MLA?

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For Sources without a Page Number

For some sources, especially websites and other sources in electronic format, the page number will be missing. Omit the page number from your parenthetical reference when:

  • the print source does not use page numbers
  • the website source does not use page numbers
  • the electronic version doesn't display page numbers from the print version of the source (like in a .PDF file)
  • using a print-out of the source (never use the print out page numbers)

In the in-text citation (either a signal phrase or a parenthetical citation), use the first element of the citation from your Works Cited page.

Works Cited

Plotz, David. “What You Think You Know About Sept. 11...But Don't.” Slate, 10 Sept. 2003, www.slate.com/articles/
news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_minute/2003/09/what_you_think_you_know_about_sept_11_.html. Accessed 6 July 2017.

Signal Phrase (Citation in Prose)

According to David Plotz, seventy percent of Americans believe the myth "that Iraq played a role" in the attacks on September 11, 2001.

Parenthetical Citation

Seventy percent of Americans believe the myth "that Iraq played a role" in the attacks on September 11, 2001 (Plotz).

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