MLA Checklist
Basics:
Is your Bibliography/Works Cited page on a separate slide at the end of your keynote?
YES/No
Is your Bibliography/Works Cited page titled as “Works Cited” OR “Bibliography?
YES/No
Is your works cited page in a professional font and sized appropriately? (12 pt. font)
YES/No
Are your citations listed in alphabetical order by author’s last name or title of article?
YES/No
Are your citations written out in “sentence form” (NOT list form)?
YES/No
If a citation is longer than one line, are the subsequent lines indented?
YES/No
My works cited page has no numbers, bullets, or pictures.
YES/No
Books:
Is the author’s name written like this: Last name, First name followed by a period?
YES/No
Is the title of the book in italics followed by a period?
YES/No
Is the city of publication written followed by a colon ( : )?
YES/No
Is the name of the publishing company written followed by a comma?
YES/No
Is the year of publication written followed by a period?
YES/No
Is the medium written followed by a period?
YES/No
Sample MLA book citation:
Pentzak, Joseph. Teaching like a boss: My Journey as the World’s Best Educator. Statesville: Northview
Press, 2014. Print.
Magazine Articles:
Is the author’s name written like this: Last name, First name followed by a period?
YES/No
Is the title of the article in quotation marks with the period inside the quotes?
YES/No
Is the name of the periodical (magazine) written in italics followed by a period?
YES/No
Is the date of publication written: day month (abrv). year. (ex: 20 Nov. 2014.)
YES/No
Is the medium written followed by a period?
YES/No
If it is a web article, have you written the date you accessed the material?
YES/No
If it is a web article, have you included the entire URL introduced and ended with < > ?
YES/No
Sample MLA magazine citation:
McGee, Bobby. “My Time on Old MacDonald’s Farm: E-I-E-I-O.” Iredell County Land and Farmers
Quarterly. 22 Oct. 2003. Web. 20 Nov. 2014. <http://www.iclfq.com/arc/tinyurl?_99fgs80.html>
Web Sites:
Is the author’s name written like this: Last name, First name followed by a period?
YES/No
Is the title of the article in quotation marks with the period inside the quotes?
YES/No
Is the name of the website written in italics followed by a period?
YES/No
Have you included any dates, version or volume numbers? (no date write “n.d.”)
YES/No
Is the name of the publisher written (no publisher write “n.p.”) followed by a period?
YES/No
Is the medium written followed by a period?
YES/No
Have you written the date you accessed the website (day month abv. year.)
YES/No
Have you included the entire URL introduced and ended with < > ?
YES/No
Sample MLA web site citation:
"How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow. Demand Media, n.d. Web. 24 Nov. 2014.
<http://www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html>
Sample MLA Works Cited Page:
Works Cited
"Blueprint Lays Out Clear Path for Climate Action." Environmental Defense Fund. Environmental Defense Fund, 8 May 2007. Web. 24
May 2009. <https://prezi.com/gu_euna5cc9v/blueprint-lays-out-clear-path-for-climate-action-environm/>
Dean, Cornelia. "Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet." New York Times. New York Times, 22 May 2007. Web. 25 May 2009.
Ebert, Roger. "An Inconvenient Truth." Rev. of An Inconvenient Truth, dir. Davis Guggenheim. rogerebert.com. Sun-Times News
Group, 2 June 2006. Web. 24 May 2009. <http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/an-inconvenient-truth-2006>
Gowdy, John. "Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Co-evolutionary Economics of Sustainability." International Journal of
Sustainable Development and World Ecology 14.1 (2007): 27-36. Print.
Leroux, Marcel. Global Warming: Myth Or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology. New York: Springer, 2005. Print.
Milken, Michael, Gary Becker, Myron Scholes, and Daniel Kahneman. "On Global Warming and Financial Imbalances." New
Perspectives Quarterly 23.4 (2006): 63. Print.
Nordhaus, William D. "After Kyoto: Alternative Mechanisms to Control Global Warming." American Economic Review 96.2 (2006): 3134. Print.
Uzawa, Hirofumi. Economic Theory and Global Warming. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. Print.
Please refer to Perdue’s website for additional guidance and help!
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/11/