citation test
If the author's last name is mentioned in the text, then it does not need to be included in parentheses.
True
academic journal
a piece of writing included with others in a newspaper, magazine, or other publication
peer-reviewed
scientific, academic, or professional work evaluated by others in the same field
Multiple parenthetical references for one piece of information are
separated by a semicolon
To cite an anonymous source in-text, what information should be included in parentheses?
the shortened form of the title (appropriately formatted) and the page number: (Wonderful World 25)
boolean
type of search allowing users to combine keywords with operators (or modifiers) to further produce more relevant results
Indirect sources are cited by
using qtd. in in parentheses followed by the author who used the quote, and the page number: (qtd. in Doe 25)
Consider the following direct quotation from page one of Sullivan's Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama about Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis" and then identify which of the following is cited correctly in MLA style:
Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis" evinces an early modern preoccupation with the relationship between memory and changing standards in behavior (Sullivan 1).
database
a collection of information that is commonly used for research and writing
In MLA style, block (long) quotations should be
double-spaced, indented half an inch, and have no quotation marks
What does a MLA in-text citation include in parentheses when the source is quoted directly and the author's name is not mentioned in the text?
(Doe 25)
Which of the following is cited correctly in MLA style?
Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (271).