QUICK & EASY GUIDE TO MLA Paper Layout Use 1-inch margins on all sides. Use a clear font that is highly readable, such as Times New Roman, 12-point font. Indent the first sentence of each paragraph 1 inch from the left margin of your paper. YOU CAN USE ONE OF THESE FREE SITES TO FORMAT YOUR CITATION IN MLA STYLE: Easybib.com Citationmachine.com OR YOU CAN DO IT YOURSELF, USING THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW Works Cited List Goes on a separate page at end of paper List should be alphabetized by the last name of author of each work. (If no author is listed, use the first word of the title to alphabetize the listing.) How to cite a book Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Year of Publication. (Note the punctuation and what is and is not italicized) EXAMPLE: Doe, John. Life in the City. Penguin, 2013. How to cite a website Editor or author. Name of Site. URL. Date of access (date you found the information). (Note 1: include the complete address for the site except for the https://) (Note 2: If no editor or author is listed, cite the source by its title, and use the first word of the title to alphabetize your Works Cited list) SAMPLE WORKS CITED PAGE: (It may be hard to tell on this example, but “Works Cited” should be centered at the top of the page.) Works Cited Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov. 2003, www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/. Accessed May 10, 2006. Leroux, Marcel. Global Warming: Myth or Reality? Springer, 2005. Uzawa, Hirofumi. Economic Theory and Global Warming. Cambridge UP, 2003. In-text citations From a book If you are directly quoting from a book, you will need to include the author’s last name and page number for the reference. Example: She stated, "Students often had difficulty using APA style" (Jones 199). From a website If you are directly quoting from a website, you will need to include the first item that appears in the Work Cited entry that corresponds to the citation (author name, article name, or website name). No year or page number is required. Example: They said, “The economy will recover with new monetary policies” (The Economist). FOR OTHER CITATION INFORMATION, SEE https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/11/ Information on this page was compiled from
