Question

Which sentence uses an in-text citation correctly, according to MLA standards?

Answer 1

I think the answer is C

Answer 2

The answer to your question would be that the sentence that uses an in-text citation correctly, according to MLA standards is the following one: Naturalist Ree McPherson believes that developing in the wetlands would do "untold damage to the local environment" (14). That is, your answer would be C.

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author's last name and the page number from which the quotation is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cite page. The author's name may appear in the sentence or in a parentheses following a quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in a parentheses, not in the text. In this case, the author's name already appears in the sentence itself, so it should not be included in the parentheses as well.