MLA formatting
What does MLA regulate?
- Document Format - In-Text citation - Works Cited
How could you avoid plagiarism?
- Use quotation marks to indicate a direct quotation - Use parenthetical documentation to indicate the source of facts or ideas - Provide a works cited page to indicate fully the sources of the facts or ideas
What is the number one rule of formatting?
Always follow your instructor's guidelines
How do you cite journals?
Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal volume, issue (Year): Pages. Medium of Publication.
How do you cite periodicals?
Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article."Title of Periodical Day Month Year Published: Pages. Medium of Publication.
How do you cite books?
Author's Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.
What kind of spacing do you use?
Double spacing
How do you cite websites?
Editor, Author, or Compiler's Last Name, First Name ."Article Name." Name of Site. Name of Sponsor or Publisher. Date of Resource Creation. Medium of Publication. Date of Access.
How do you cite online databases?
Follow format for Books, Periodicals or Journals. Name of Database. Medium of Publication. Date of Access.
How do you alphabetize your works cited page?
Last names of the authors must be in alphabetical order
What does MLA stand for?
Modern Language Association
Is there a title page?
No there isn't
Can you number your sources?
No, you can't number them
Where do endnotes go?
On a separate page before works cited
Where do you begin "works cited"?
On a seperate sheet of paper
What does MLA recommend you to use?
Parenthetical documentation instead
When citing websites, what must you put before the URL?
The date you accesed the source and it must be in angle brakets
Parenthetical citations depend on what?
The medium and the source's entry on works cited
What is the only thing that can be centered?
The title
What must you do to titles of books, magazines, newpapers, journals, etc.
The titles must be italicized .
How do you align your paper?
You align it to the left margin
What do you do when there are multiple authors?
You put both last names and the page number in parentheses
When the author isn't mentioned by name what do you do?
You put the page number and the author's last name in parentheses
What do you do when the author is mentioned in the sentence?
You put the page number in parentheses
What do you do when there isn't an author?
You use the first word of the book/ article title and the page number in parentheses
