General Format
Font and size of text
What is Times New Roman 12 point?
Most common elements
What is author's last name and page number?
The order of sources
What is alphabetical?
When a quote is not integrated
What is a dropped quote?
&
What is an ampersand?
Spacing
What is double spacing?
What does not need to be repeated if stated in the sentence
What is the author's last name?
The indentation for sources
What is hanging indent?
What to do with quotes longer than four lines
What is set them off or block them?
What MLA stands for
What is Modern Language Association?
Includes student name, instructor name, course name and date
What is the heading?
The mistake in this citation:
Colonial Massachusetts did not observe separation of church and state because "only church members could vote," making church membership very important (Meyers, 20).
What is the comma between the author's last name and the page number?
Punctuation used for book titles
What is italics?
Where textual quotes should be located in a paragraph
What is in the middle?
<#>
What is pagination?
Includes author's last name and page number
What is the header?
The mistake in this citation:
Meyers add that "every good Puritan had to interpret disasters and near disasters as messages of their election or signs of the need for self-correction." (87).
What is the period before the in-text citation?
Punctuation mark after the publisher
What is a comma?
When to use single quotation marks
What is a quote within a quote?
What OWL stands for
What is the Online Writing Lab?
The most common spacing error students make
What is extra space between paragraphs?
The additional element included when more than one source has the same author
What is the title?
What should be used instead of a URL if available
What is a DOI?
When students do not properly cite and/or use quotation marks
What is plagiarism?
The tool for scoring essays
What is a rubric?