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Q&A MLA Background Research Paper: Noting a citation in the text?

I need to write a background research paper on a science fair experiment, but it needs to be formatted in MLA. I looked up some examples of a MLA essay and research paper but there seems to be some...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Sugarblob‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Sugarblob‭ · 2019-12-08T05:48:28Z (almost 5 years ago)
I need to write a background research paper on a science fair experiment, but it needs to be formatted in MLA. I looked up some examples of a MLA essay and research paper but there seems to be something that bothers me. At the end of some bit of information or a sentence there seems to be a small word in parenthesis.

## Example

> Batteries don't perform as well in low temperatures.(Best Batteries 71) \<-----!!!

I saw this in most of the references I found. There seems to be a similarly worded citation at the end of the paper so I assume that it is telling the reader where the information before the parenthesis came from, but I do not know for sure. If I am correct then is it alright(or uncommon)to cite definitions and how should I note the definition at the end of the sentence? I am not sure about anything because this is my first time writing a MLA formatted paper. I hope you can help me a bit.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2016-12-18T05:37:03Z (almost 8 years ago)
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