: Re: Multiple Same Source Citations in the same Paragraph in MLA format? I'm writing a paper for a Political Science class. We are allowed to use "any standard citation format", so I've decided to

That would be a nice scenario to use ibid., but sadly that's discouraged in MLA.

I'm surprised that you can omit them in APA, but so what. Be aware why marking the citations is needed: to distinguish your ideas from the ones you borrowed.

So if the paragraph includes your sentences embedded with in-text citations, you should mark each sentence individually. Even if it seems redundant, it makes it clear and precise.

But if your whole paragraph is more or less a summary of your source, you do not need to use the parentheses () at all. You can just mention your source at the beginning of the paragraph:

According to the CIA World Handbook ...

Maybe you like that better.

Here a short summary of MLA in-text citations.

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