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.
Sources directly referenced in your essay belong here.
The exact words from a source must be surrounded by these.
What are 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?
Citation information is needed following direct quotes and also after these other ways to present source material.
What is paraphrased or summarized source material?
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?
In a title, these types of words are not capitalized
What is articles (the, a, an)?
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?
How far do you indent a new paragraph?
What is 1 tab?
This is where the works cited page must be
What is at the end, on its own separate page?
This is the formatting used to identify longer works published under their own title and not contained in other works (books, magazines, movies, etc.),
What is italics?
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 name, teacher's name, course name, and date ?
This is an extra step you have to take to make your page numbers visually cohesive with the rest of your essay.
What is change the font/font size to size 12 Times New Roman?
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 are quotation marks?
Use this to indicate when paraphrased or summarized source material starts (in order to avoid having the same in-line citation at the end of several consecutive sentences).
What is a strong signal phrase/top cookie?