MLA Study Guide
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What does MLA stand for?
What is a Works Cited?
If you use someone else’s words or ideas without crediting them, what are you guilty of?
What is a Works Consulted?
Where does a Works Cited appear in a written project?
What is the preferred font and size for Works Consulted or a Works Cited?
What are the preferred margins for a Works Consulted or a Works Cited?
How is a Works Cited spaced?
Where is the first line of a Works Cited citation begun?
How should subsequent lines of a citation be formatted?
How does one set up a hanging indent for a Works Cited?
How is a Works Cited arranged?
Is a Works Cited ever numbered?
What words are ignored when you are arranging a Works Cited?
How are authors names listed in a Works Cited?
What is the pattern if a source has two authors?
What can you put if your citation has more than three authors?
How are the titles of books, magazines, newspapers, films, and television programs written in a Works
Cited?
In a citation title, what words should be capitalized?
What do you do if the words of a title were not capitalized in an original citation?
How are titles of articles, essay, stories, Web pages, and television episodes written?
Does a period go before or after a closing quotation mark of a title?
For a magazine or news article, what punctuation does the page number follow?
What do you use if no page number for an article is provided?
In a book where should you first look for the place of publication, publisher, and date of publication?
If the place of publication, publisher, and date of publication are not found in the first place you look, where
is the second place to look in a book?
When citing publication information for a book, what do you use for the place of publication?
When citing publication information for a book, must you include the state along with the city?
What do you use if there is more than one city listed on the title page of a book?
Which months are not abbreviated in MLA format?
Which month has a 4-letter abbreviation in MLA format?
What is the correct way to cite April 15, 2010?
What is the “Medium of Publication” in MLA citations?
What “Medium of Publication” is used for books?
What “Medium of Publication” is used for Internet sources?
Is it necessary to include the URL of an Internet source?
Where should I put the page number?
Starting at the top, in what order should the items in the headers be listed?
The title should be centered and bolded.
How should I structure a block quotation?
If I want to add or omit information from a quotation, how do I do that?
For in-text citations, both the author’s last name and the page number need to be listed in the in-text
citation.
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MLA Study Guide
43. I should end my sentence with a period before using a regular in-text citation.
44. If I include the author’s last name in my sentence, then I do not need to include it in the parenthetical
citation.
45. What should I do if no author is given for the work I am citing?
46. I should include in the wordks cited all the sources I read, regardless of whether I cited them in the paper or
not.
47. Sources listed in a works cited page are alphabetized.
48. How do I format the works cited pages?
49. In the works cited list, how should I cite a work that has more than three authors?
50. What is wrong with the following citation? Jupiter, Janie and Suellen Powers. The Nitty Gritty Lit Book.
New York: Banter Press, 1991.
51. What is wrong with the following citation? Allan, Joseph, “How the Americans Made Sugar in the West.”
Journal of American History (1986) 23: 245-257.
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