MLA Format Rules
This is the required text font for MLA 9th edition.
What is Times New Roman?
The title of the source page.
What is Works Cited?
Titles of articles are placed in these.
What are quotation marks?
Information usually included in an MLA parenthetical citation.
What is the author's last name and/or page number?
Smith John. The Great Novel. Penguin, 2020.
What is Smith, John?
The standard font size for MLA.
What is 12 pt font?
Citation entries are arranged in this format.
What is alphabetical order?
Titles of books, journals, or websites are formatted this way.
What are italics?
This punctuation appears after a parenthetical citation at the end of a sentence.
What is a period?
Works cited
What is the word "cited" needs to be capitalized: Works Cited?
The spacing style used in MLA formatting.
What is double space?
The indentation style after the first line of an entry.
What is a hanging indentation?
Source that is peer-reviewed.
What is a scholarly source?
True or False: Every in-text citation must match a source on the Works Cited page.
What is True?
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is italicize the title of The Great Gatsby?
The margin size used on all sides of an MLA paper.
What is 1 inch?
Book titles are formatted using this.
What are italics?
A source that recounts events after they have occurred.
What is a secondary source?
A signal phrase that includes the author's name means a writer can leave this out of the essay if there is no page number.
What is a parenthetical citation?
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, 2001
What is the italicized title* Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Author name* J.K. Rowling. Period after publication date.
The information that appears in the upper right-hand corner of every page.
What is the author's last name and page number?
When no author is listed, entries are alphabetized by this.
What is title of the source?
Before using a website, students should check the author, date, and this important factor.
What is credibility (or reliability)?
If an author is not listed, this would be placed in the in-text citation.
What is the article title?
It only includes the URL. MLA citations should include as much source information as possible, such as the author, page title, website title, and publication date.