How you quote an interview depends on whether you conducted it yourself or found it published. A personal interview, one you did, is cited by naming the person and the date: in MLA the Works Cited reads “Ng, Sophie. Personal interview. 12 Mar. 2024,” and in APA it is cited only in the text as…
To quote an article in an essay, introduce the source, put the borrowed words in quotation marks, and follow them with an in-text citation naming the author and the location. In MLA that is a page number, like (Tolentino 44); in APA it is the year and page, like (Tolentino, 2019, p. 44). If the…
To quote a YouTube video in MLA 9, start the Works Cited entry with the video’s title in quotation marks, then YouTube in italics, the channel that uploaded it, the upload date, and the URL. The in-text citation pairs the title with a timestamp, like (“Boiling Water” 00:04:15), because a video has no page number….
To quote a video, transcribe the spoken words exactly, put them in quotation marks, and cite the source with a timestamp instead of a page number. A timestamp uses hours, minutes, and seconds: in MLA it looks like (Kurzgesagt 00:03:12); in APA it looks like (Kurzgesagt, 2020, 3:12). The full entry names whoever posted the…
To quote a tweet, reproduce the post exactly, keep the spelling, hashtags, and emoji as written, and cite the account. In MLA the full text of the tweet becomes the title in quotation marks; in APA you use the first 20 words as the title and add “[Post].” Both styles put the account handle in…
To quote a textbook, put the borrowed words in quotation marks and follow them with an in-text citation that points to the author and the exact page. In MLA that looks like (Myers and DeWall 214); in APA it looks like (Myers & DeWall, 2021, p. 214). A textbook is cited like any other book,…
To quote a TV show, put the dialogue in quotation marks, name the show and episode in your sentence, and cite it with a timestamp instead of a page number. In MLA the in-text citation is the episode title in quotation marks plus the time: (“Ozymandias” 00:41:20). The Works Cited entry lists the episode title,…
To quote a documentary, put the spoken words in quotation marks, name the film in your sentence, and cite it with a timestamp instead of a page number. In MLA the in-text citation is the title (or director) plus the time, like (RBG 00:26:16–00:27:07). In APA it is the director and year, with the timestamp…
To quote a definition in an essay, put the defined wording in quotation marks, name the source in a signal phrase, and cite the dictionary or reference work you took it from. Cite the specific entry, not just “the dictionary” — the word you looked up is the title of the entry. In MLA the…
To quote a book in an essay, put the borrowed words in quotation marks, introduce them with a signal phrase, and add an in-text citation with the author’s last name and the page number. In MLA that citation is (Lastname page); in APA it is (Lastname, year, p. page). Then list the full source on…