mla study guide
Kramer, Cosmo F. "A Health Threat Baffling for its Lack of a Pattern." New York Times 22 June 2003,natl. ed.:A14
Newspaper
When documenting one author by name in a text which is correct
Frye has argued this point before(197)
ways to cite a web site
The Modern Language Association was founded in 1883 (mla.org). According to the Modern Language Association's(MLA) website, the MLA was founded in 1883 (mla.org)
when documenting one author in reference text which is correct
This point has been argued before(Frye 197).
Bernstein Barton J. "Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Nagasaki."Diplomatic History 28.3 (1991):126-29
article
Crane, Niles F. "Anarchy at Sea." Atlantic Monthly Sept. 2003: 50-80.
article
Peterman, Jay S. "Eat this Now!" US News and World Report 28 Mar. 2005: 56-58>
article
Tyson, Phyllis A., and Michael g. Gordon. "The Psychology of Women." Journal of the AMerican Psychoanalytic Association 46 (1998): 361-64.
article
Foreman, Red, Elizabeth, Bennett, and Collins. "In Forecasting Their Emotions, Most People Flunk Out," New York times 16 Feb. 1999. 21 Nov. 2000.<http://www.nytimes.com>.
article on web site
Jackson, Gabriel."Multiple Historic Meanings of the Spanish Civil War." Science and Society 68.3 (2004): 272-76. Academic Search Premier Elite. EBSCO. Brookens Library, U of Illinois at Springfield. 27 Sept.2002. <http://www.epnet.com>.
article on web site
Creation of the Media: Political Origins of the Media. Los Angeles: Houghton-Mifflin, 1922.
book
The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003.
book
Van Delay, Art. Seinfeld: The Show About Nothing. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.
book
Venetian Blinds: Contemporary Study of Compulsive Lying. New York: Pendant Publishing 1994.
book
What is true about block quotes
entire block quote is indented used when author is mentioned in the text page #at end is outside the period quotation marks are not used
Alphabetize your works cited page including A, An, or The as the first word of a title
false
For multiple authors of the same text in your works cited page,list all authors in reverse order, separated by commas, and a period at the end.
false
When you use quotations in the text you place the citation before the lest quotation mark
false
You should capitalize every word in a title
false
You should underline the title of a text, but not the period at the end in the works cite page
false
authors names are listed alphabetically in reverse order on the Works Cited page
false
what does mla stand for
modern language association
works cited page
starts new page numbered sequentially placed after the body of the paper "Works Cited" is centered, without quotation marks, italics, or underlining include all quoted paraphrased or summarized sources start each entry on new line, regular left margin indent the second and all subsequent lines five spaces double-spaced all lines alphabetize by authors last name, book title, web name
Give only the first city listed for the place of publication and do not list state names, regardless how obscure the city.
true
MLA prefers Times New Roman font
true
You only use block quotes when quoting more than 4 lines of text
true
You only use et al when you are citing a text with more than three authors
true
You should not use the authors last name in the citation if the authors names appear in the text.
true
quotation marks should be placed around titles of shorter works
true
what is mla
type of formating
American Association for Artificial intelligence. 17 Mar. 2001.<http://www.aaai.org>.
web site
Colbert, Stephen. Home page. 1 Nov. 2006. <http://colbertnation.com>.
website