MLA Flashcards
(23 cards)
What elements are required/needed to cite a book in MLA 8th Edition?
Author’s Last Name Author’s First Name Title Publisher Year of Publication.
How do you list sources on a Works Cited page?
Alphabetical Order – Author’s Last Name or Title (excluding A, An, or The)
Typically, what is the main thing that determines a source’s place (most common or typical) in a Works Cited page and appears in a in-text citation?
Author’s Last Name
Where does one place a heading in a MLA formatted paper? What is included in a heading? In what order?
Top Left
Your Name
Class Name Professor’s Name
Date (day, month, year)
Where does one place a header in a MLA formatted paper if one is required? What goes in a header?
Top Right
Author’s Last Name
Page #
How is a title formatted and where is it located in a MLA formatted paper?
Centered
below the heading and before the body of the paper
If a source does not have an author, what typically is listed first in the Works Cited entry and placed (abbreviated) in the in-text citation?
Title of the Article or Source
When taking a quotation and putting it in your own paper, what THREE things must you do to make it fit in its new environment, your paper?
Introduce/Integrate Quote
Cite Frame/Explanation
How does one (and when) put a quotation in block format (also called long quotation format)?
If quotation is four or more lines. Hit enter, and tab, offset it
No quotation marks
Punctuation before the citation
When you reach the end of a quotation (short), how do you properly end and cite it. What order? Where does the punctuation go?
Close quotations Open parenthesis Cite Close parenthesis Punctuate
If I have three authors: John Keats, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron and I am citing them, how do I list their names in a in-text citation?
(Keats, Shelley, and Byron)
Works Cited entry:
Keats, John, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron
How do I write a citation, particularly in-text if I have a source by Wilfred Owen and 6 other co-authors? How do I write their in-text citation?
(Owen et al.)
Works Cited entry:
Owen, Wilfred et al.
When citing a book in 8th Edition MLA, what TWO things have been done away with that we used to include in 7th Edition?
City of Publication
Type of Publication
What is something that has been put back into 8th edition MLA websites or online sources NOT in 7th edition?
Full URL
When listing something looked up in an encyclopedia, wiki, or reference book in a in- text and works cited entry, what do we do to the thing we looked up when writing it out?
“Superhero” – I treat this like its an article title
If something is a book, scholarly journal, movie, TV show, or online site it is put in what?
Italics
What do you do to something you found on a website, an article, title of poem, or title of a TV show episode?
Put in “quotation marks”
What are the three things you need to give us for or when you conduct a personal interview?
Person you interviewed
Personal Interview Date of Interview
What do you do to publishers when they have “University” or “Press” in their name?
Abbreviate University to U and Press to P
Example: University of Mississippi Press = U of Mississippi P (in MLA citation)
Why do we NOT need quotation marks for long or block quotations?
The offset or block method tells the reader it is someone else’s words, this the inverse of why quotation marks are needed for shorter quotations. Block formatting takes the place of the quotation marks.
The use of brackets [ ] allow you to primarily do what to a quotation?
Change
Modify
Add to
Clarify a quotation
The use of ellipses . . . allow you to primarily do what to a quotation?
Shorten or Omit words
When citing the Bible, what is the first thing we list and why?
Which version of the Bible are we quoting from, because there are hundreds of translations.
