What's in a Name?
This association gives MLA its name.
What is the Modern Language Association?
This is the preferred margin size for papers formatting in MLA.
What is 1" (one inch)?
This information makes up a standard parenthetical citation for a web article with a named author.
What is the author’s last name and page number?
This is what goes first in the works cited entry if no author is listed for a text.
What is the complete title?
This is the preferred line spacing for papers formatted in MLA.
What is double spaced?
This page appears at the end of a research paper formatted in MLA style.
What is a Works Cited page?
This is the order of dates in MLA heading.
What is day, month, year?
This is used if no author is available for in-text citation.
What is an abbreviated version of the title?
This is what any lines after the first should use in a works cited entry.
What is a hanging indent?
This is what must be done every time you paraphrase information from one of your sources in the body of your essay.
What is provide an in-text citation?
Names of self-contained works—book titles, films, television series, website titles, etc.—should be formatted in this way.
What is italicized?
This is the information that should be located in the upper right corner of each page in an MLA formatted paper.
What is the author's last name and the page number?
This is the location of the period for a sentence requiring an in-text citation.
What is outside the parentheses?
This is one of the main reasons that hyperlinks are not enough for a works cited entry.
What is links change?
According to Introduction to College Writing at CNM, this is how you should cite a table or image in the text.
What is include a complete works cited entry?
Names of works contained within other works—chapters, individual articles, individual web pages, songs, etc.—should be formatted in this way.
What is in quotation marks?
These are the four things that must be included in the lines of the MLA heading on the left-hand side of the first page.
What is your name, your professor's name, the name of the class, and the date?
This is the latin phrase used in citations to indicate a source written by three or more authors.
What is "et al."?
This piece of information is used in a citation from a website to help show when the writer consulted the source.
What is date of access?
Which is the current edition of MLA in use?
What is 9th edition?
All words except these three types of grammatical elements must be capitalized in titles, unless the element is the first word.
What are articles, prepositions, and conjunctions?
These three elements are required formatting for a block quote.
What is set off with a block indent, no quotation marks are used, and it must be longer than four typed lines?
Use this phrase to cite an indirect source (i.e., a source cited by another source) in a parenthetical citation.
What is "qtd. in"?
True or False - Everything in a Works Cited must be used in the essay with in-text citation.
What is true?
All months whose names are longer than four letters are formatted in this way.
What is they are abbreviated?