Chapter 14: Citation Styles - MLA 8th edition First page If you know they have a doctorate, use Dr. If you don’t know, always use Professor NEVER Ms/Mrs/Mr Your name Lydia Noland Professor’s Name (spelled correctly) Dr. Johnson Class (if you’re in a class with more than one section, include the date and time) ENGL 5020 Date (Day Month Year)(no commas) 27 September 2021 Other MLA formatting details ● ● ● ● ● Page numbers with last name in top right corner 12 pt Times New Roman font 1 inch margins Double-spaced Properly formatted Works Cited Page In-Text citations 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Author named in a signal phrase Author named in parentheses Organization as author Unknown author Nonprint or electronic source Author named in signal phrase Ravitch chronicles how the focus in education reform has shifted toward privatizing school management rather than toward improving curriculum, teacher training, or funding (35). Author named in parentheses Oil from shale in the western states, if it could be extracted, would be equivalent to six hundred billion barrels, more than all the crude so far produced in the world (McPhee 413). Organization as Author Many global economists assert that the term “developing countries” is no longer a useful designation as it ignores such countries’ rapid economic growth (Gates Foundation 112). Unknown Author Use the complete title of the work if it’s brief or a shortened form if it’s lengthy “Hype,” by one analysis, is “an artificially engendered atmosphere of hysteria” (“Today’s Marketplace” 51). Nonprint or Electronic Source If the work isn’t numbered by page and includes numbered paragraphs, include those numbers instead. For paragraphs, abbreviate with par. or pars. For sections, use sec. For part, use pt. Zora Neale Hurston is one of the great anthropologists of the twentieth century, according to Kip Hinton (par. 2). Works Cited Page ● Alphabetical listing of the sources you cite in your essay ● Appears on separate page with Works Cited centered an inch from the top ○ Don’t italicize/bold/quote/parentheses the title of the page ● Double space between heading and first entry, and double space entire list ● First line left aligned; subsequent lines indent one-half inch or five spaces https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ej__QVnQS2VD9SZh puauKSu1l6-QKCVf7VjO4VbMW3Y/edit Digital Sources ● ● ● Name of author Title of the work Publication info ○ ○ ○ ● Publisher Volume, issue, date List page or paragraph numbers only if they are included in the source! DOI or URL **If there is no author, then the title is the first thing listed in the citation.** Last name, first name. “Title of the Article.” Publisher, publication date, URL. Purdue OWL https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/ mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_g uide.html
