Paper Formatting Basics
The standard font for MLA format
What is Times New Roman?
Where the Works Cited page is located in a paper
What is at the end, on its own separate page?
This is the spacing required for all elements on the Works Cited page
What is double spacing?
The exact words from a source must be surrounded by these.
What is quotation marks?
The line spacing required in MLA format
What is double spacing?
This is the format for the date in the heading and how it is punctuated
What is first the number of the day, followed by the name of the month, followed by the year with no commas between parts?
This is the punctuation used to identify longer works published under their own title and not contained in other works (books, magazines, movies, etc.),
What is italics?
Citation is needed following direct quotes and also this form of information
What is paraphrased?
The size of the margins needed for the top, bottom, and sides of the page.
What is one inch margins?
This is how the formatting/position of the title is different from the rest of the paper?
What is the title is centered and the rest of the paper is justified left?
This is the punctuation used to identify the titles of shorter works that are usually published inside other works (songs, poems, short stories, TV episodes, etc.)
What is quotation marks?
This is the circumstance under which a citation can contain a title rather than the author's name
What is when the author's name is unknown?
The number of inches (or spaces) to indent a paragraph in mandatory for MLA format (two options)
What is .5 inch? or What is 5 spaces/1 tab?
This is what goes in the header on the top right of each page.
What is your last name and page number? DO NOT USE p., pg., PG., PAGE, or page when numbering the pages.
In a title (or "title case"), these types of words are not capitalized
What is articles (the, a, an)?
This is the position of the period at the end of quoted material that is also cited.
What is following the final parentheses around the citation information?
In order from top to bottom, this is the information in the heading on the top left of your paper.
What is author (student) name, teacher's name, course name, and due date ?
The general rule for section header formatting
What is make sure they are formatted distinctly from the the other text of the paper and consistent throughout
This is how a works cited page's contents are different from a bibliography.
What is only works actually referred to in the paper go on the Works Cited Page, but a Bibliography can contain works consulted but not directly used in the paper?
When quoted material ends with a question mark or an exclamation point, this is where that end punctuation must be.
What is inside the quotation marks, before the citation information