In-Text Citations
This Latin phrase means "and others" and is used in a citation when there are 3 or more authors
et al
Cite a quote from page 13 of an article written by Bob Smith
(Smith 13)
Do you need a title?
Yes
If available, what always comes first in a source's works cited entry?
The author's name
How do you format the titles of shorter works, such as article titles, book chapters, tv episodes, or YouTube videos?
In quotation marks, no italics
Ex: "An Analysis of the Poetry of Langston Hughes"
What information is contained in an MLA parenthetical/in-text citation
Broadly: text identifier and location identifier (NO COMMAS)
Text Identifiers: author's name or title of source
Location Identifiers: page #, para. #, timestamp
Cite a quote from an article by Haley Brown that is in the fourth paragraph of a source with no page numbers
(Brown para. 4)
What font and font size do you use?
Times New Roman, 12 point
What is the name of the website that tells you how to cite any possible source type?
Purdue Owl
How do you format the titles of longer works or containers, such as journals, magazines, or books
In italics
Ex: YouTube
For this class, how do you cite location when page number isn't available
With paragraph number
Cite a quote from an article titled "Pollen in North Carolina" from paragraph 5. An author is not listed.
("Pollen in North Carolina" para. 5)
What goes in the top right corner of each page? (2 things)
Last name and page number
In MLA format, what order you put the sources in in your Works Cited?
Alphabetical order
When citing multiple quotes from the same scene, do you cite each quote?
Yes--if you're analyzing them separately. Your timestamp in this situation will be the approximate beginning of each quote
If you've included a block of dialogue then you only cite when the exchange starts
Which type of source will almost always have a PDF with page numbers available on it?
Scholarly source (alternative answer includes a printed source)
Cite a quote from page 16 of an article written by Matthew Gray and Thomas Gibson
(Gray and Gibson 16)
A block quote should be used to offset all quotes of this length
What is more than 4 lines of text?
In italics
Ex: Little Women
Cite a quote from page 94 of a book on The X Files by Daniel Joseph, Denise Ken, and Drew Cruz
(Joseph et al 94)
When citing your movie, what two things go in the parenthetical citation?
1. Director's last name or movie title (whichever is first in the WC)
2. Approximate time stamp of the scene
Ex: (Lucas 43:58)
Cite a scene in Twister that begins approximately an hour, ten minutes, and thirty-five seconds into the movie
(Twister 1:10:35)
When there is punctuation at the end of a quote and it is not immediately followed by a parenthetical, where does the punctuation go?
Inside the quotation marks
If there is a parenthetical citation after the quote, the punctuation goes after the parenthetical
In a standard entry for an online source, this piece of information should be listed last in the required citation
What is the url or doi (location)
When do you use a hanging indent in your works cited?
Every line after the first line of a citation if a citation is more than one line