If a quotation starts on one page and continues on a consecutive page or pages, should the in-text citation include the span or just the page on which the quote began?

Note: This post relates to content in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook. For up-to-date guidance, see the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook.

Include the page span in your in-text citation:

(62–63)

(Jones 137–38)

See the MLA Handbook, section 2.5.1, for how to style nonconsecutive page ranges.