Need help ASAP!! How to cite sources in MLA by the same author and same title?

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Yaya

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Okay, here's my situation. I have three articles from a literary journal which I am trying to cite for quotes in the research paper. The format I'm using is MLA. The problem is that all three have the same author, the same title, and come from the same journal. The only differences are the year and issue the articles were published in (and, of course, the page numbers). I'm trying to cite the quotes in the paper, not for a Bibliography or Works Cited. Does anyone know how to do this (and please don't give me a link to a citing website, this problem is too in-depth for that and those sites are very basic).
Each article is different and cover a different topic. However, they each have t same title and author.
 
Okay. So, for citing it at the end, the Works Cited page, just cite as you normally would--the issue, date, and page numbers change enough to differentiate between the three.

In text is a little tricker, but is doable. MLA prefers that you keep your in-text citations as brief as possilble. A tricky little way to get around it is, if you mention the author's name in the line ("So and so says that...."), all you need to mention in the parenthesis is the page number. So do that whenever you can.

Beyond that gets even murkier, and there's no clearly defined answer I can see. Normally, when you have multiple works by the same author, you would cite it as (Author, Title, Page #). You could potentially do it one of two ways. You could maybe do it just as it says above, since the page numbers are different in each article. Or, you could do something like (Author, Magazine Title Issue #, Page #).

Honestly, I'm not sure there IS a right answer here, as it's kind of rare for an author to do such a thing as you've described. i would recommend picking one of the two ways above (the most important thing is to stay consistent!) and then, when you turn it in, explain the difficulty to your teacher.
 
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