MLA — In-text citation

Use title instead. If title is too long, use the first 1-3 words of title.

Example: if the title is "Unplug, Don't Drug"

More than 50% of children have a television in their bedrooms ("Unplug" 6).

OR

A New York Times article, "Unplug", noted that an increasing "number of restaurants, cars, and even physicians' waiting rooms have a television on all day" (6).

In a 2001 survey of managers, more than three-quarters of the responding companies monitor their employees' "misuse or personal use of office telecommunications equipment" (American Management Association 2).

OR

According to a 2001 survey of managers by the American Management Association, more than three-quarters of companies monitor their employees' use of the Web (2).

Mention all authors.

Kizza and Ssanyu note that "employee monitoring is a dependable, capable, and very affordable process of recording all employee activities at work" (2).

OR

Electronic surveillance of employee is a "dependable, capable, and very affordable process" (Kizza and Ssanyu 2).

Use first author followed by "et al." (Latin for "and others").

Medical researchers, Insel et al., claimed that technology overuse by young children "is associated with developmental delays" (9).

OR

Three critical factors for healthy child development are movement, touch, and connection to other humans (Insel et al. 9). 

If you use a source that was cited in another source, name the original source in your signal phrase. List the secondary source in your reference list and include the secondary source in the parentheses.

Johnson argues that...(qtd. in Smith 22).