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

The report surveys the major problems in fundraising (AMNH 15).

引用多卷本中的一卷

Between the years 1945 and 1972, the political party system in the United States underwent profound changes (Schlesinger, vol. 4).

Schlesinger pointed out the profound changes the political party system in the United States underwent between 1945 and 1972 (4: 98-104).

2)引文出自同一作者的不同文献

引用同一作者的两篇以上的文献, 可以分别以文献名全名(如果文献全名简短的话)或文献名的缩略形式(如果文献全名较长的话)注释。

文本中未出现引文作者姓氏，也未出现文献名的，夹注用括号标出作者姓氏，姓氏后加逗号，空一格字母标出带下划线的该作者的书名，书名后空一格字母标出引文页码

Shakespeare’s King Lear has been called a “comedy of the grotesque” (Frye, The Anatomy of Criticism 237).

文本中出现作者姓氏的，夹注用括号标出带下划线的该作者的书名，空一格字母再标出引文页码

Shaughnessy points out that “the beginning writer does not know how writers behave” (Errors 79).

若引文出自杂志，则把文章名放在双引号内，空一格字母再标出引文页码

Teachers applauded Shaughnessy’s assertion that “teaching them [beginning writers] to write well is not only suitable but challenging work for those who would be teachers and scholars in a democracy” (“Diving In” 68).

文本中既出现作者姓氏又出现该作者的书名或文章名，则只需标出引文页码

In The Age of Voltaire, the Durants portray eighteenth-century England as a minor force in the world of music and art (214-48).

4)一个夹注中涉及一篇以上文献

(Lauter 34; Crane 98)

5)转引

Samuel Johnson admitted that Edmund Burke was an “extraordinary man” (qtd. in Boswell 2: 450)

6)引文来自于中文作者(对“孔子”等已有英文译名的必须使用标准译名，如Confucius 33; Mencius 22-25)

(Hu Zhuanglin 33)

(Zhu Xianzhi & Lin Chongde 89)

(Xu Guozhang et al. 33-35)

(Confucius 33)

7)长引文

如果引文较长，超过4行，拟另起一行，不加引号，左边缩进10个英文字母, 夹注紧随引文末尾

At the conclusion of Lord of the Flies, Ralph and the other boys realize the horror of their actions:

The tears began to flow and sobs shook him. He gave himself up to them now for the first time on the island; great, shuddering spasms of grief that seemed to wrench his whole body. His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. (186)

引文为两段或两段以上，或引文来自诗歌，或引文来自剧本，或引文附带译文，详细说明分别参考《MLA科研论文写作规范》82页;83-84页;85页;93页。注意引文来自诗歌等韵文时，可以篇次和行次代替夹注中的页码;引文来自剧本等文献时，以幕次、场次和行次代替页码。