The MLA format places the information about the author and the page number within a parenthesis after the quoted or paraphrased material:
EXAMPLE: According to Jared Diamond, “Technology begets more technology” (258).
If you do not mention the author’s name in your introduction to the quote, place the name within the parenthesis:
EXAMPLE: As one contemporary historian describes it, “technology begets more technology” (Diamond 258).
Then place the full information about Jared Diamond’s book in your Works Cited page:
EXAMPLE: Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Norton, 1997. Print.
The CMS format uses the notes and bibliography style, which means whenever you have a quotation or paraphrase, you place a number after it:
EXAMPLE: According to Jared Diamond, “technology begets more technology.”[1]
You can place footnotes either at the bottom of the page, separated with a line as illustrated here, OR have a page at the end of your paper called “Notes.”
[1] Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, (New York: Norton, 1997), 258.
After the "Notes" page, you must also include a bibliography page, and the would appear like this:
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: Norton, 1997.
Examples adapted from Turabian.
The Works Cited (MLA) or Bibliography (CMS) provides complete bibliographic information for the sources you used, thereby allowing your reader to identify and locate those materials. To format the page:
