If...for MLA
MLA Guidelines
Citing References MLA
MLA vs APA
APA
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These two pieces of information are found in typical parenthetical citation.

What is the authors last name and page number.

ie (Zeleny 64)

100

Daily Double: What does MLA abbreviate for? 

Modern Language Association

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When you are citing an author who is cited in someone else's article, you do this in the parenthetical citation.
What is (qtd. in Smith 32)
100

MLA wants these two things in parenthetical citation and APA wants these two things.

What is (last name page number) and (Last name, year, and page number if you have one)

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When quoting biologist Mary Smith's research in 2013 on stem-cell research, you would introduce her by doing this.
What is According to Smith (2013),
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If there are two authors, then what should be found in the parenthetical citation?

What is the both of the authors' last name, in alphabetical order the word "and", and page number. ie (Smith and Tims 52)

200

If there's no author for the material, then what should be put in the parenthetical citation?

What is the first item that you would find in the works cited page, article title, website, film etc ie ("Impact of Global Warming" 6) or (CNN) or (Casablanca)

200

Create a citation for this website:

author: Mark Bernstein

Article title:  "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web" 

Site Title: A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites

publish date: 16 Aug. 2002

 website: alistapart.com/article/writeliving. 

Access date: May 4 2009.


Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites, 16 Aug. 2002, alistapart.com/article/writeliving. Accessed 4 May 2009.


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APA values this because it is important for research to be up-to-date while MLA values this because it is important to know the author's credentials.
What is publication date and attributive tags?
200
What is wrong with the following citation? In most western European countries the prevalence of CP has remained remarkably constant over the past 30 to 40 years (Jones Donaldson & Reinhold 1997 p.28).
What is there is no punctuation? (the commas between author names and before the year)

(Jones, Donaldson & Reinhold, 1997, p. 28)

300

If the author's name is provided in the quote introduction, then what should be found in a typical parenthetical citation?

What is page number ie (52)

300

The titles of journals, books, films, images, paintings, photographs (containers) etc-should be formatted this way while chapters, songs, articles, etc should be formatted this way.

What is all letters should be italicized and shorter pieces go in quotations?

 "chapter one" in Book

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"I used material by David Gilbert found on page 20 of my book, and I provided his name in the sentence to introduce the material."
What is (20)
300
APA formats block quotes this way while MLA formats block quotes this way. they both don't have this.
What quotes 40 words or longer, single indent every line vs. 4 lines of longer, double indent every line. neither of them have quotation marks.
300
What is wrong with the following citation from a scholarly journal? “Prenatal exposure to the teratogen alcohol has deleterious effects on brain development with the potential to cause serious and chronic deficits in cognitive, motor and behavioral functioning” (Riley, Infante, & Warren, 2011).
What is no page number for a direct quotation
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If there are 3 or more authors, then what should be found in the parenthetical citation?

What is the first authors' last name followed by the word "et al" and page number. ie (Smith et al. 52)

400
Papers in MLA need this information in the header and this type of citation page
header: student name, instructor name, class number, date (day month year) and last name and page number in right hand corner. citation page: works cited
400

Youtube video

8 Hot Dogs put to the Test

YouTube

uploaded by Hacker123

creation date June 6 2016

website: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBlpjSEtELs

"8 Hot Dog Gadgets put to the Test.” YouTube, uploaded by Hacker123, 6 June 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBlpjSEtELs.


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APA is more likely than MLA to use paraphrased material than direct quotations (true or false)
What is true?
400
What is wrong with the following citation? However, since emotion specific facial processing deficits have also been found in depression and other psychiatric disorders (Heimberg, Gur, Erwin, Shtasel, Wheeler, Shultz & Gur, 1992) 
What is the citation should say “et al.”? (Heimberg et al., 1992)
500

If you have two authors with the same last name, you do this for in-text citations.

What is use the author's first initial to distinguish between sources. ie Although some medical ethicists claim that cloning will lead to designer children (R. Miller 12), others note that the advantages for medical research outweigh this consideration (A. Miller 46).

500
If you want to delete information from the middle of a quote, this symbol should be placed in the middle.
What is an ellipses, or "..." ie In an essay on urban legends, Jan Harold Brunvand notes that "some individuals make a point of learning every recent rumor or tale . . . and in a short time a lively exchange of details occurs" (78).
500

What is Miss. L's major and minor?

Bio and English

500
APA uses a p. in front of a page number most likely for this reason?
What is "since APA requires dates in the parenthetical citation, it would be easy to confuse dates with pages without the "p.")
500
Name the error in this citation: Calfee, R. C., & Valencia, R. R. (1991). APA Guide to Preparing Manuscripts for Journal Publication. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
What is all letter in the journal title should be lower-cased after the A in APA?
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