MLA In-text Citations, A Complete Guide 9th Edition Published by Shona McCombes. Revised on. An MLA in-text citation, MLA in-text citations typically include the author's last name and the location of the information cited. This guide focuses on how, in MLA style, the following format is used to cite a lecture or speech. MLA format. Last name of the speaker, First name. "Lecture Title." , provide the name of the speech To cite a speech, you need to know the name of the speaker, the date, the title of the speech and the Uniform Resource Locator URL of the speech and, To cite a republished speech. in an e-book, follow the pattern in MLA format Give the name of the speaker and the title of the speech Then give the title of, -point size Double spacing the entire research paper, even. from the Works Cited page Leave a space after periods and other punctuation, unless your instructor asks you to leave two spaces. These guidelines come from the MLA Style Center web page “Formatting a Research Paper.” : Since this is a YouTube URL, it is assumed that the format is video and the source type "Video" has been omitted: in this case, " " refers to the date the lecture was published on the website, not on the date of the conference itself. The date therefore comes after the site name, pointing to the element. In-text narrative quote: In the film Shrek the Third, the nuances of Shrek's life become even more pronounced. With timestamps. In-text parenthetical quote: 25:11 In-text narrative quote: At one point in Shrek the Third, Shrek says to Donkey when have you ever heard the phrase gentle as an ogre during a discussion about University Writing and Speaking Center. Virginia Street, Reno. William N. Pennington Student Achievement Center, Mailstop: 0213. unr.edu speaking writing center. 775 784-6030. Some sources and situations may require a slight modification to the standard MLA format. See examples to help you, start the quote with the title, and list the channel name in the other contributors item. In the example below, the video was both created and uploaded by the BBC News organization, so the reference begins with the title. An abbreviated version of the title appears in the in-text citation. MLA format. "Video title."