# MLA style question - need answer fast

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 12, 2008, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mla-style-question-need-answer-fast/472328 "2008-11-12T10:14:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mla-style-question-need-answer-fast/472328/1 "2008-11-12T10:14:29Z")

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I need to do an MLA in text citation, and I’m having trouble finding a rule in any style guides. The closest I’ve found is the rule for “citing multiple works” which goes (Dude, 83; Otheguy, 27), but that’s different works by different authors, not the same work by a collaborative set of authors. Specifically I’m doing a web source by two people, so it’s not multiple works, I’m trying this: (Dude; Otherguy, “Biography”) as an electronic cite for multiple authors for one work. I’m using OWL at Purdue as my MLA resource right now, so I just slapped together “citing multiple works” and “electronic citation” (hence why I used the page title rather than the page number) but I’m not sure if that’ll work. I’ve never run into anything I couldn’t find a style guide entry for, so I need some help.

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**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mla-style-question-need-answer-fast/472328/2 "2008-11-12T12:05:00Z")

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Unless I’m misreading your post you are asking about multiple authors of one work, not multiple works. I’m pretty sure you handle it exactly as you would any other article by two or more authors. "(Smee and Blogg, “Drinking Games”) "Is there any way you can work that information into the text so that you don’t have to do a parenthetical reference? Sometimes that simplifies things.

Have you ever tried [easybib.com](http://easybib.com) to help you? I found it to be a great resource. No, I have no tie-in with them.

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**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mla-style-question-need-answer-fast/472328/3 "2008-11-12T12:06:29Z")

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> [@Cub\_Mistress](#):
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> Unless I’m misreading your post you are asking about multiple authors of one work, not multiple works. I’m pretty sure you handle it exactly as you would any other article by two or more authors. "(Smee and Blogg, “Drinking Games”) "Is there any way you can work that information into the text so that you don’t have to do a parenthetical reference? Sometimes that simplifies things.
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> Have you ever tried [easybib.com](http://easybib.com) to help you? I found it to be a great resource. No, I have no tie-in with them.

No, doing parenthetical citations like that was really, really stressed. Okay, so I use “and” and not a semicolon, I couldn’t find multiple authors on OWL. Alright, that works then, thanks.