General Format
The Standard Font Style and Size required for MLA
What is Times New Roman, 12 point.
The two pieces of information typically included in a standard parenthetical citation.
What are the author's last name and the page number?
The term for putting a source's ideas into your own words, which still requires a citation.
What is paraphrasing?
How the title of your paper should be formatted and placed on the first page.
What is centered?
The Works Cited page should always begin on this part of your document.
What is a new page at the end of the paper?
The measurement for margins on the top, bottom, left, and right of the page
What is one inch?
If you mention the author's name in the sentence itself, this is the only information you need in the parentheses.
What is the page number?
The formatting rule for a quote that is longer than four lines of prose.
What is an indented block quote (without quotation marks?)
The formatting style required for longer works, like books, films, and magazines.
What are italics?
How should your entries be ordered on the Works Cited page?
What is alphabetical order (by the first word of the citation)?
The type of paragraph spacing required throughout the entire document
What is double spacing?
The correct in-text citation format if a source has three or more authors
What is (Author's Last Name)
What must never be added inside quotes to emphasize a point without enclosing it in brackets.
What is a comma instead of a period when a citation immediately follows?
The formatting style required for shorter works, such as articles, poems, or songs.
What is placing the title in quotation marks?
When citing a book, this is the correct formatting for the title.
It should be italicized.
The four pieces of information included in the top-left heading on the first page, in order.
Name, Teachers name, course name, Date
This should be placed inside the parentheses if an online source does not have page numbers.
What is the author's last name?
The punctuation mark placed between the quoted phrase and the parentheses in an in-text citation.
What is nothing?
The case where the first word of a longer work's title is not capitalized in a Works Cited entry.
What are articles
When citing an article in a scholarly journal, this is the correct formatting for the title of the article.
It should be in quotation marks
The location and contents of the running head in the top-right corner.
What is the author's last name followed by the page number?
The proper location for the period at the end of a sentence that contains an in-text citation.
What is after the closing parentheses
The term you use in brackets if you alter an original quote to fit your sentence structure.
What is [sic]? Or Square Brakets
The type of punctuation you place immediately after an italicized book title in a citation.
What is a period?
When listing a date in an MLA citation, this is the correct chronological order to write the day, month, and year.
What is Day Month Year?