Order of Entry Elements
Generally, the first component of a works cited entry.
What is an author's last name?
Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, shorter edition in 2 volumes, Norton, 1998, pp. 1106-1217.
What is a play in an anthology?
A quote must be in these when citing it from a book, article, etc.?
What are quotation marks?
The order of sources in a works cited list.
What is Alphabetically by author's last name?
The font and font size needed for MLA format.
What is Times New Roman, 12 point font?
The title of a magazine article is punctuated with these marks.
What are quotation marks?
Spicer, Richard. "Gobsmacked: The Tragic Rise and Fall of Punk Rock." Spin, vol. 28, Iss. 5, Jan. 2014, pp. 56-58, 105.
What is an article in a magazine?
(Type out) Correct this:
She dove into a vat of chocolate 64
"She dove into a vat of chocolate" (64).
The location of the works cited list.
What is beginning on the next page after the last page of the paper?
The spacing needed for MLA format.
What is double-spacing?
The title of a book is rendered with this typeface.
What are italics?
de Montaigne, Michel. Michel De Montaigne: The Complete Essays. Edited by M. A. Screech, translated by M. A. Screech, Penguin, 1991.
What is a book?
What you should do when citing a website with an unlisted author.
What is: list the title of the webpage article first, if there is no author?
The terms used to describe the formatting of a works cited list entry.
What is "hanging indent?"
They key must you press at the beginning of each paragraph for MLA formatting.
What is the tab key?
MLA uses this general term to describe a larger source that "houses" more than one specific source.
What is "container?"
The Walt Whitman Archive. Edited by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, U Nebraska–Lincoln, http://www.whitmanarchive.org
What is a website?
What is this an example of?
We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has "more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . ." ("Impact of Global Warming").
An in-text citation of an article with no known author.
(Type out)
Cite the following print book correctly using MLA format with the information given:
Author: James Gleick
Title: Chaos: Making a New Science
Publisher: Penguin
Publish Date: 1987
City of Publication: New York
Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print.
How the pages of a paper are numbered in MLA Format.
What is in the header in the top, right corner. Last name, and page number. DO NOT USE p., pg., PG., PAGE, or page when numbering the pages.
The last element of a works cited entry.
What is location? Print. Web. Page etc.
Jeffries, Mark, and Bill Withers. "Graphic Design in the 22nd Century." Art Space, Vol. 12, Iss. 9, May/June 2002, pp. 28-31. Academic Search Complete, DOI: 34.1000/483.
What is a magazine article located on an electronic database?
(Type out) Correct this:
The reason the landscape is so prominent in each chapter Smith says is because it acts as a character in the story Smith 24
"The reason the landscape is so prominent in each scene," Smith says, "is because it acts as a character in the story" (Smith 24).
(Type out) Cite the following article in a journal using MLA style:
Author: Alaknanda Bagchi
Title of Article: Conflicting Nationalisms: the Voice of the Subaltern
Title of Journal: Studies in Women's Literature
Volume: 15
Issue: 1
Year: 1996
Pages: 41-50
Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern." Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 15, no. 1, 1996, pp. 41-50.
A block quote format in MLA.
What is it and what does it look like on the page?
What is a quote more than four lines long?
The entire block quote is indented, with no quotation marks.
Your parenthetical citation should come after the closing punctuation mark.