In-Text Citations
Formatting
Works Cited Page Formatting
Works Cited Listings
Miscellaneous
100
This number used in an in-text citation helps readers locate the original quote.
What is the page number?
100
Papers should have this much line spacing throughout
What is double spaced?
100
This title is located at the top of the page listing texts you refer to in your essay.
What is Works Cited?
100
This punctuation mark follows the author's name.
What is a period?
100
These are located in the upper right corner of each page of your essay.
What is a page number?
200
Aside from the page number, this other piece of information is necessary for a proper in-text citation.
What is the author's name?
200
This is the first line of the header that appears in the upper left hand corner of every essay.
What is your name?
200
Authors are listed in this order on the Works Cited page.
What is alphabetical.
200
This information is located immediately following the author.
What is the title of the work cited?
200
We refer to authors by their ___________ name.
What is their "last"?
300
These punctuation marks surround the in-text citation.
What are parentheses.
300
This should be the width of every margin.
What is 1"
300
Authors are listed alphabetically according to this.
What is their "last name"?
300
The title of essays found in the First-Year Composition Reader should be enclosed in these punctuation marks.
What are quotation marks?
300
When citing a poem within your text, use these instead of page numbers.
What are line numbers?
400
This punctuation mark is found outside of the parentheses that surround an in-text citation
What is a period?
400
The first line of each paragraph should be indented this much from the left-hand margin.
What is one-half of an inch?
400
This is the spacing used on a Works Cited page.
What is double-spaced?
400
Following the title of the essay cited, this entry, which comes next, should be italicized.
First Year Composition Reader or the name of the anthology, book, or edited work
400
This part of a Works Cited page entry indicates whether the source is print or web-based.
What is the Medium?
500
This may be used to cite a Tweet if the actual author name is not available.
What is a username?
500
This is the size of the font that should be used throughout the essay.
What is 12 points?
500
TRUE or FALSE: Texts that were read but not cited in the essay should still be listed on the Works Cited page.
FALSE
500
This is the final entry listed within a citation of a website.
What is the Date Accessed?
500
This abbreviation precedes the name of the editor in Works Cited entries.
What is "Ed."?