ParentheticalcitationsinMLA(ModernLanguageAssociation)stylearebriefin-textreferencesthatdirectreaderstothefullsourceinformationlistedintheWorksCitedpage.Thesecitationstypicallyincludetheauthor'slastnameandthepagenumberwherethereferencedmaterialcanbefound,enclosedinparentheses.Forexample:(Smith123).Iftheauthor'snameismentionedinthesentence,onlythepagenumberappearsinthecitation.MLAparentheticalcitationshelpavoidplagiarismandallowreaderstolocatesourceseasilywhilemaintainingacleanandreadabletext.Thisformatiscommonlyusedinhumanitiesdisciplinessuchasliterature,languages,andculturalstudies.
