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The following presentation covers established conventions of MLA citation style formatting 7th Ed.
However, your instructor may have special requirements.
Always check with your instructor regarding their requirements for MLA style.
Some Sources on MLA
MLA Modern Language Association
MLA Style The Owl at Purdue
Beth Jones and Gina Hurley Purdue Owl MLA Videos
Why MLA?
Publication Manual of the Modern Language Association 7th Edition
Commonly used by freshman composition, literature, English usage, and foreign languages course.
Designed to organize and manage research in a manner recognizable to all in the field
In LTCA your final project will be a Literary Research paper.
The Basics
Use 8 ½ x 11 white paper Any font as long as the italics appear
clearly differentiated from the rest of the text
12 point times font All double spaced 1 inch margins ON ALL SIDES Paragraphs indented by Tab key 1 inch
from margin One space after period or other
punctuation mark
5 Areas to Remember
Header and Heading Title and First Page Sections of the Paper In-Text Citations Work’s Cited Page
Header
The header is placed on the upper right corner flush with the right margin, ½” from the top
The header includes your Last Name and # of page.
Heading
Heading is located on the upper left. Heading includes the following
double-spaced: Your Name Professor’s Name Course Date in Day/Month/Year format
Title and First Page
The title is to be centered. Using standard capitalization. DO
NOT CAPITALIZE THE WHOLE TITLE! Do Not Bold or Use Quotations on
Title Use a double space between the title
and the first line of text.
Sections within the paper
MLA recommends that when you divide an essay into sections that you number those sections with an arabic number and a period followed by a space and the section name. 1. Early Writings 2. The London Years 3. Traveling the Continent 4. Final Years
Purdue Owl: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
MLA In-Text Citations
include the author's (or authors') last name and the page number(s) following the quotation, paraphrase, idea, or fact you are citing.
Example"When his father told him that he was to go back to school again, Charles's eyes filled with tears of gratitude" (Hibbert 83). From the Libguide by Peter
NerzakPellissippi State Community
College
You may also refer to the author's name in the text of your paper. In this case, only the page number is needed following at the end of the sentence.
ExampleAccording to Andrea Tone, President John F. Kennedy took up to eight medications a day to treat illness and stress (112).
Works Cited
Hibbert, Christopher. Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1983. Print.
Tone, Andrea. The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers. New York: Basic Books, 2009. Print.
Citing two or more books by the same author:
Murray states that writing is "a process" that "varies with our thinking style" (Write to Learn 6).
Additionally, Murray argues that the purpose of writing is to "carry ideas and information from the mind of one person into the mind of another" (A Writer Teaches Writing 3).
Works Cited Page
All references listed on a Works Cited page.
A separate page at the end of the paper. 1 inch margins on each side, double-
spaced Include your header on the upper right The page is to be titled Works Cited
Centered with capitalized first letter of each word, no bold, italics
Hanging indent: Line 1 is flush with the margin/ Line 2 is indented ½ inch.
For more on Variations of In-Text Citing: The Owl @ Purdue
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/
Citing Authors
Authors are cited alphabetically by Last Name.
If there is no author, use title alphabetically
Use the following format: Last Name, First Name Middle Name or
Middle Initial. Do not use Dr. or Professor or PhD It is okay to use suffixes such as Sr. or Jr.
Continued…
For one work by an author the first entry uses Last Name, First Name, I.
But for subsequent works three hyphens replace the author’s name
Pagination
List pages using only numbers, WITHOUT p. or pp.
For double digit page numbers use 13-21
For triple + digit page numbers use 123-45
Publication Medium Required
At the end of each citation you must indicate its type such as Print Web Film DVD CD-Rom
Web URLS
Web site addresses are no longer required.
HOWEVER, your teacher may require them!
If you include a web site address do so at the end of the citation with angle brackets followed by a period
Articles from the Web
If an article you are using was originally published in print but you retrieved it online do the following:
Add and italicize the name of the database such as Academic Search Premier followed by date of access.
You do not need to include the web address or database subscription information
Titles of Works Cited
Capitalize the first letter of each word in the title but not conjunctions such as “and” “or” “the” unless they begin the Title
Use Italics for BOOK title, or JOURNAL title
Use Quotes for essay in a book or article in a journal
Citing Books
http://libguides.pstcc.edu/content.php?pid=24540&sid=503537
From the Libguide by Peter Nerzak
Pellissippi State Community College
Citiing a chapter or essay in a book
From the Libguide by Peter Nerzak
Pellissippi State Community College
Citing a Journal Article (Print)
From a Print Source
From the Libguide by Peter Nerzak
Pellissippi State Community College
Citing a Journal Article (Web)
From the Libguide by Peter Nerzak
Pellissippi State Community College
Citing a newspaper accessed online
From the Libguide by Peter Nerzak
Pellissippi State Community College
MLA 7th Formatting Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Y31UrG2q4&list=PL4917D9E21FA6EDFF
Beth Jones and Gina Hurley in collaboration with the Purdue Owl
MLA 7th Formatting Lists of Works Cited
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaFcJ3f4fJk&list=PL4917D9E21FA6EDFF
By Beth Jones and Gina Hurley in collaboration with the Purdue Owl