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How do I do in-text citations in MLA?

Author's surname and page number with no comma and no p., as in (Okafor 14). If the author is named in the sentence, only the page number goes in brackets. Sources without pages, such as most web pages, take the author alone.

This comes up on MLA 9 Format Guide, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.

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