Formatting Frenzy
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?
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 is how you format dates in MLA style.
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?
In MLA style, you indent the second and subsequent lines of citations by 0.5 inches to create this.
What is a hanging indent?
This is the current edition of MLA style.
What is 9th edition?
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 location of the period for a sentence requiring an in-text citation.
What is outside the parenthetical citation?
This is one of the main reasons that hyperlinks are not enough for a works cited entry.
What is links change?
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 works contained within other works—chapters, individual articles, individual web pages, songs, etc.—should be formatted in this way.
What is in quotation marks?
This is the Latin phrase used in citations to indicate a source written by three or more authors.
What is "et al."?
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?
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?
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?
Use this phrase to cite an indirect source (when someone is quoted or paraphrased in a text by another author) in a parenthetical citation.
What is "qtd. in"?
All months whose names are longer than four letters are formatted in this way.
What is they are abbreviated?
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?