The student is quoting from page 148 of the following magazine article:

Als, Hilton. “Wayward Girl.” New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2003, pp.147-49.

Which in-text citation has the period in the correct location for MLA style?

Question

The student is quoting from page 148 of the following magazine article:

Als, Hilton. “Wayward Girl.” New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2003,  pp.147-49.

Which in-text citation has the period in the correct location for MLA style?

BlackTom AI · Accepted Answer

The question asks which in-text citation has the period placed in the correct location for MLA style when quoting from the article. Since there are no alternative options listed, we can focus on the provided citation and assess its punctuation.
In MLA style, when a quotation is followed by a parenthetical citation, the period at the end of the sentence should come after the closing parenthesis. For example: Als describes Cat Power as “a storyteller . . . who cares more about how she says something than about what she says” (148).
Here, the citation appears at the end of the quoted material and the period comes after the closing parenthesis, forming the sequence: quote, closing quotation mark, space, (148), and then the period that ends the sentence is placed after the closing parenthesis. This placement aligns with MLA guidelines that require the sentence-ending period to follow the parenthetical citation.
If there were alternative formats where the period is placed inside the parentheses or before the closing parenthesis, those would be incorrect under MLA rules for standard in-text citations. The core misconception would be treating the citation as part of the sentence’s internal punctuation rather than as a citation tag that ends the sentence.
Additionally, note that the page number in MLA in-text citations typically uses a page range or a single page number without a preceding 'p.' and without a trailing period inside the citation; the period belongs outside the closing parenthesis, concluding the sentence.
In summary, the given option correctly places the period after the closing parenthesis in the in-text citation, which is consistent with MLA formatting conventions for a parenthetical citation at the end of a sentence.

The student is quoting from page 148 of the following magazine article: Als, Hilton. “Wayward Girl.” New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2003, pp.147-49. Which in-text citation has the period in the correct location for MLA style? 单项选择题

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