Q. I have articles with no authors and the same titles. How do I do the in-text citations?

MLA

Let's say your Works Cited has these sources:

“Chefs and Head Cooks.” CareerOneStop, U.S. Department of Labor, www.careeronestop.org/Toolkit/Careers/Occupations/occupation-profile.aspx?keyword=Chefs%20and%20Head%20Cooks&onetcode=35101100&location=UNITED%20STATES. Accessed 3 Mar. 2023.

“Chefs and Head Cooks.” Career Star, Emsi, lonestar.emsicc.com/careers/chef-or-head-cooks?region=Houston%20MSA&radius=. Accessed 3 Mar. 2023.

“Chefs and Head Cooks.” Occupational Outlook Handbook, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 3 Dec. 2021, www.bls.gov/ooh/food-preparation-and-serving/chefs-and-head-cooks.htm.

Normally, your parenthetical citation would just be ("Chefs") or maybe even ("Chefs and Head Cooks"). In this situation, however, that doesn't help anything, since they all start with the same title! 

Solution 1a

What we do instead is include the site name: ("Chefs" [CareerOneStop]), ("Chefs" [Career Star]), ("Chefs" [Occupational]).

Solution 1b

We could also combine it with a narrative citation, e.g. The Occupational Outlook Handbook says facts ("Chefs").

APA

Since APA uses the publication date in the in-text citations, it can dodge some of the issues in MLA, but not all. If we convert the above examples to APA...

Chefs and head cooks (n.d.). CareerOneStop, U.S. Department of Labor, https://www.careeronestop.org/Toolkit/Careers/Occupations/occupation-profile.aspx?keyword=Chefs%20and%20Head%20Cooks&onetcode=35101100&location=UNITED%20STATES

Chefs and head cooks (n.d.). Career Star, Emsi, https://lonestar.emsicc.com/careers/chef-or-head-cooks?region=Houston%20MSA&radius=

Chefs and head cooks (2021, December 3). Occupational Outlook Handbook, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, https://www.bls.gov/ooh/food-preparation-and-serving/chefs-and-head-cooks.htm

The OOH source is no longer an issue, because it has a publication date: (Chefs, 2021) is distinct from (Chefs, n.d.). Yay! But we still have 2 (Chefs, n.d.) to deal with.

Luckily, APA makes it simple: we just add a, b, c, etc designations after the date: (Chefs, n.d.-a) (Chefs, n.d.-b). Which one is a and which is b will depend on the order the sources are listed on the References page -- so make sure you've alphabetized your References correctly!

Our revised References list will include these letters:

Chefs and head cooks (n.d.-a). CareerOneStop, U.S. Department of Labor, https://www.careeronestop.org/Toolkit/Careers/Occupations/occupation-profile.aspx?keyword=Chefs%20and%20Head%20Cooks&onetcode=35101100&location=UNITED%20STATES

Chefs and head cooks (n.d.-b). Career Star, Emsi, https://lonestar.emsicc.com/careers/chef-or-head-cooks?region=Houston%20MSA&radius=