MLA Citation Methods Quiz

What is true of a Works Cited page?

-Starts new page numbered sequentially -Placed after the body of the paper -"Work(s) Cited" is centered, without quotation marks, italics, or underlining -Include all quoted, paraphrased, or summarized sources -Start each entry on a new line, regular left margin -Indent the SECOND and all subsequent lines five spaces ("hanging indent") -Double-space all lines -Alphabetize by the author's last name, book title, or website name

What is MLA?

A method of citing references in research papers

Crane, Niles F. "Anarchy at Sea." Atlantic Monthly Sept. 2003: 50-80

Article

Bernstein, Barton J. "Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Nagasaki." Diplomatic History_28.3 (1991): 126-29.

Article in scholarly journal

The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003.

Book

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 last 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 Cited page.

False

When documenting one author by name in a text, which is correct?

Frye has argued this point before (197).

What does the acronym MLA stand for?

Modern Language Association

Which is the correct way to cite a website?

The Modern Language Association was founded in 1883 and Accoring to the Modern Language Association's (MLA) website, the MLA was founded in 1883 (mla.org).

Which of the following is true about block quotes?

The entire block quote is indented, author is mentioned in the text, Page number is included at the end after the period, quotation marks are not used

When documenting one author in reference in a text, which is correct?

This point has been argued before (Frye 197).

Author's names are listed alphabetically in reverse order in the Works Cited page.

True

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

Quotation marks should be placed around titles of shorter works (articles, poems, short stories, essays).

True

You can only use "et al" when you are citing a text you place the citation before the last quotation mark.

True

You can only use block quotes when quoting more than 4 lines (not sentences) of text.

True

You should not use the authors' last names in the citation if the authors' names appear in the text.

True

American Association for Artificial Intelligence. 17 Mar. 2001 . <http://www.aaai.org>.

Website

Colbert, Stephen. Home page. 1 Nov. 2006. <http://colbertnation.com>.

Website