General
This is what surrounds words taken from the text/source material
Quotation marks
This is what an MLA sources page is titled.
Works Cited
Author last name and page number.
MLA is used in the following discipline
English studies
This is where the period goes after a parenthetical citation.
Outside the parentheses.
This is the type of indentation needed for each bibliographical entry.
Hanging indent
If an author's last name precedes the quote, should it be in the parenthetical citation? (Y/N)
No
These are other guides comparable to MLA
Chicago style; AP style; APSA (American Political Science Association) style
Is there a comma between the page number and author name in a parenthetical citation (Y/N)?
No - citations should look like the following: (Salinger 25).
This is the purpose of a bibliography.
Attributing proper credit to all authors cited in a paper
This is how many lines a quote must be for it to qualify for a block quote.
4 or more lines
The reason we use MLA (and other style guides)
Uniformity and professionalism in writing
This is where the period goes in a block quote.
Before the parentheses.
References page
This is the number of authors needed to us "et. al" in a parenthetical citation.
3 or more authors
MLA stands for what?
The Modern Language Association
This is where the period goes at the end of a quotation (without parenthetical citation).
Inside the quotation marks.
This is the origin word for "bibliography"
Biblio + graphia = the copying of books
This is the punctuation used to separate multiple parenthetical citations.
Semicolon