Quoting online news paper source, confused on something.

[Starstreams]

Hi
I have a hand book with an MLA section but I’m confused with the quote-source section examples because of the way the same info is found elsewhere in the book.
If I quote a sentence from an online news paper, such as the SunTimes, what is needed in the body of my argument paper?
I think I understand that the bottom of the source page should be as follows.
EX:
Doe, Jane Q. "Title of an Article." Title of a Magazine 12 Aug. 1999: 23.
Or mabye that is wrong? But what I'm really not sure about is; how to point the reader from the text in the essay down to this information on the last page, the source page?

Advanced Thanks

[Tdol]

I would put this information in to0:
Available from: http://www.xxx.html [Accessed 18 March 2007]

In the text, I would put (Doe 1999) unless the text is numbered by chapters or sections: uw-madison writing center writer's handbook (see foot of page)

[Starstreams]

Thank Tdol

I've got both the Bedford Hardbook 7th addition
and the Hodges Harbrace Handbook 6th addition but it jumps around. I'll take a another look because the way you had (Doe 1999) in the text doses look like something I remember seeing somewhere.

[Tdol]

Name + Date is a standard way of doing things, used in the Harvard Merthod, so where there is not the information they suggest, it seems a logical fall-back.

[Starstreams]

I see, thank you Tdol!

One thing I’m not clear on still is, when you want to reference an author's name and his/her book in a starter sentence how is that done? For example if I wanted to tell everyone here about an author named Michael Test and his book titled The Trick of Time, do I do it like this;


In the book “The Trick of Time” author Michael Test: explains how time works.
or
In the book “The Trick of Time” author Michael Test: explains how time works.
or
In the book The Trick of Time author “Michael Test” explains how time works.

[Tdol]

In Trick of Time, Michael Test explains how time works...

You could say 'In the book...' and 'author', but I am not sure that this is really necessary. However, this sort of referencing is more appropriate for general writing than an academic paper IMO.