引用两位作者

Medieval Europe was a place both of “raids, pillages, slavery, and extortion” and of “traveling merchants, monetary exchange, towns if not cities, and active markets in gain” (Townsend & Waugh 10-16).

作者有三个以上，则在第一位作者的姓氏后写上et al.以示其余姓氏的省略，或列上全部姓氏，夹注中的形式应与参考文献中的形式保持一致

Modern Literary studies have their origin in classic studies (Graff et al. 19-35).

Modern Literary studies have their origin in classic studies (Graff, Goldberger, & Tarule 15-20).

文本中不指名列举持某一观点的作者

Others hold the opposite point of view (e.g., Jakobson 9;Waugh 34)

作者姓氏在引文中出现，则只需用括号标出引文页码

Graff defines his recent book, Professing Literature, as “a history of academic literary studies in the United States” (10).

如在引文中提及整个文献及作者姓氏(不必夹注，但参考文献中要注明相关出版信息)

Slade’s revision of Form and Style incorporates changes made in the 1995 edition of the MLA Handbook.

集体作者如果组织名称太长，第一次提及时可采用全称后加注缩略

The annual report revealed substantial progress in fundraising (American Museum of Natural History 12, hereafter AMNH).

以后直接用缩略形式做夹注