What’s in a name?
This Latin phrase means “and others”
What is "et al"?
This font is suggested for MLA formatting
What is 12pt Times New Roman?
This information goes inside a standard citation for a video.
What is the author / performer name and time stamp?
Entries should be listed according to this
What is alphabetical order?
If I quoted something from page 42 of J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, what should my in-text citation look like?
What is (Salinger 42)?
This association gives MLA its name
Who is the Modern Language Association?
A block quote should be used to offset all quotes of this length.
What is 4 or more lines of text?
This goes between 2 or more sources in one citation.
What is a semi-colon?
Entries should be formatted with this kind of indent
What is a hanging indent?
If you also knew that J.D. Salinger’s book was published in 1951 by Back Bay Books in Boston, what would the bibliographic citation look like?
Salinger, Jerome D. The Catcher in the Rye. Back Bay, 1951
MLA now encourages this for online sources instead of a URL.
What is a digital object identifier (DOI)?
The number of spaces after periods and other punctuation.
What is one space?
In-text citations should go at the end of every sentence that includes these 3 kinds of information from outside sources?
What are summary, paraphrase, or quotation?
In a standard entry for an online source, this piece of information should be listed last in the required citation.
What is the location (URL or DOI)?
These months should be written in full within bibliographic citations.
What are May, June, and July?
The words University Press in publishers’ names are shortened to this.
What are U and P
This information should appear on the 3rd line of the paper’s heading.
What is your course information?
The following 2 elements are different when formatting a block quotation.
What are no quotation marks and indented one inch from the left margin?
This is what should be listed as the author when a source is written and published by the same organization
What is no author?
The bibliographic abbreviation for multiple page numbers 89 through 91
What is pp. 89-91?
This is how an illustration should be labeled.
What is Figure (or Fig.)?
These are always set off with italics in MLA format.
What are titles of longer works?
If a paper uses two or more works by the same author, this should also be included in the citation.
What is a shortened form of the title?
When citing a selection from an anthology, this should be the third piece of information in the citation.
What is the title of the anthology (the container)?
What would the citation for an article titled “Research and Authority in an Online World: Who Knows? Who Decides?” from pages 89 – 92 of the journal, English Journal, in the first edition of volume 95 in 2006 look like? The authors were Tiffany J. Hunt and Bud Hunt. (A: Hunt, Tiffany J., and Bud Hunt.
Hunt, Tiffany J., and Bud Hunt. “Research and Authority in an Online World: Who Knows? Who Decides?” English Journal vol. 95, no.1, 2006, pp.89-92.