Paper Formatting Basics
This is the font required for MLA format?
What is Times New Roman?
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.
This is the title for a Works Cited page.
What is Works Cited.
The exact words from a source must be surrounded by these.
What is quotation marks?
This is 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 spacing required for all elements on the Works Cited page
What is double spacing?
This is the information you include in an in-text citation following direct quotes, paraphrases, and summaries.
What is the author's last name and page number?
(Hunt 3)
This is 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 indent used for the second and subsequent lines of a works cited entry.
What is the hanging indent?
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?
This is the number of spaces to indent a paragraph, in mandatory for MLA format (two options)
What is 1 tab? or What is 5 spaces?
This is where the works cited page must be
What is at the end, on its own separate page?
This is the punctuation used to end a works cited entry.
What is a period?
This is the position of the period at the end of quoted material and an in-text citation.
What is following the final parentheses around the citation information?
"Quote" (Hunt 3).
In order from top to bottom, this is the information in the heading on the top left of your paper.
What is name, teacher's name, course name, and due date ?
This is the specific type of document needed to submit to the dropbox.
What is a Microsoft Word document.
This is the order in which entries are listed on the works cited page.
What is alphabetically by the author's last name?
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 in-text citation.
"Quote!" (Hunt 3).