When citing a scholarly journal on the web, cite it as you would cite a print journal. Change the medium of publication from Print to Web and add the date you accessed the journal. In the Text: MLA uses an author-page number format for in-text citations. Author’s name used in text (signal phrase). Author’s name not used in text (no signal phrase). Researchers at the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research used mice to examine the immune system’s response to the flu (Hagedorn, para. 2).