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I'm familiar with the basic rules on inline citation, however, recently I've stumbled onto this problem numerous times so I thought I would ask.

When using MLA style inline citations, is it legal to use multiple citations in one sentence?

For example:

This is a sentence clause based on one source (Author 101); this is a
related sentence clause based on another source (Author 102).

Is this legal according to the laws of english?

Or would it be something more along the lines of:

This is a sentence clause based on one source; this is a related
clause based on another source (Author 101)(Author 102).

Can anyone clarify this for me? Thanks.

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Different situations have different methods. If the two sources cited has authors with the same surname, then the following is done:

Although some medical ethicists claim that cloning will lead to designer children (R. Miller 12), others note that the advantages for medical research outweigh this consideration (A. Miller 46).

But, normally, multiple citations is done thus:

To cite multiple sources in the same parenthetical reference, separate the citations by a semi-colon:
. . . as has been discussed elsewhere (Burke 3; Dewey 21).

Taken from MLA

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