#mla formatting

[linguisticadventures]

i hate you mla formatting I hate you double spacing I hate you 12-point times new roman I hate you alphabetized works cited page

[leedleleedleleedleleedlelee]

Any body out there know MLA bibliography formatting, or know where I can find this?

I need to cite a quote, quoted within an article, the article being within a collection of articles.

[teaching-everydayisdifferent]

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Essay Writing Tips: A Step-by-Step Guide to MLA Formatting

If you are taking an English class or some kind of liberal arts or humanities course, you will likely be required to write an essay and follow MLA (Modern Language Association) style. This introduction to MLA style will help you get through these essays without having to resort to one of those websites that pumps out the reference page for you. By using websites or tools that do the work for you, you are not learning how to use this style on your own. You wouldn’t be able to tell if there was an error. If you have to write an in-class essay or exam that requires MLA formatting, and you do not have access to these tools, you will wind up losing major marks for not knowing how to implement the style on your own. There’s really not much to it. By learning how to reference your sources properly using the required MLA style, you will not lose any more easy marks on your essays and your grades are bound to improve.

In-text citations

In order to support your arguments, you must include in-text citations. Do your research and gather relevant quotes. When you are ready to reference a quote in your essay, it is important to introduce the quote. Once you’ve done this, insert the relevant portion of text. Don’t forget to include quotations marks at the beginning and end of the quote. After the closing quotation mark, you need to include the citation. This lets the reader know where you found this specific reference. After the quote you would type the author’s last name and the page number the quote is from in brackets. After the citation you would end the sentence with a period.

Example:

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

So what? What’s your point? Do not forget to explain the relevance of the quote you’re including. It is not up to the reader to determine the relevance. Your teacher cannot read your mind. Even if the relevance or purpose of the quote seems abundantly clear to you as you’re writing, it is necessary that you provide an explanation.

The Works Cited page

Once you are finished your essay, you need to include a Work(s) Cited page. Start a new page and title the page Works Cited. If you only used one source, it should be called Work Cited. This title needs to be centered. Do not put this title in quotation marks, do not underline it, and do not change the font style or size. You will create a separate entry for each source consulted. For each entry you must list the author last name, first name, title, city, publisher, year published, and medium. Double space all citations, but do not add additional spaces between entries. Italicize the titles of longer works (books, magazines) and just use quotation marks for the titles of shorter works (articles, poems). Also, include the punctuation seen below.

Works Cited

Last name, First name. Title. City of publication: Publishing company, Year of publication. Medium of publication.

Last name, First name. Title. City of publication: Publishing company, Year of publication. Medium of publication.

Example:

Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print.

Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, 1999. Print.

Indent the second line of each entry if it exceeds the first line, creating a hanging indent. Also, all entries need to be listed in alphabetical order. If you are dealing with more than one author, format the names like this:

Last name, First name, and First name last name. Title. City of publication: Publishing company, Year of publication. Medium of publication.

Example:

Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000. Print.

If you are not using print sources (books, magazines, newspapers), and you are consulting a website, the medium of publication will be Web. Read more about citing electronic sources here. (link to blog post on MLA formatting for online sources)

[englishmajorhumor]

The thing I like least about MLA is the heading with the name and class and stuff is double-spaced. I mean, why?

[sbuwrt102-12-fall2012]

Citation Advice: Visual Analysis

If citing more than one image, you need in-text citations:  (Fig 1), (Fig 2), (Fig 3), and so on.  No matter how minor is the discussion about that image, you must cite the figure number.

In the Figures page, copy and paste all images in order of their figure number.

In the Works Cited page, include MLA-formatted citations for each image, as formatted in the ways that we reviewed through EasyBib.com by selecting the most relevant visual text:  a film, a television show, a newspaper article, a painting, a photograph, and so on. 

[sbuwrt102-12-fall2012]

MLA Formatting: Sample

Pham, Alex, and David Sarno. "Digital Information and the Future of Reading." 2010. Mirror on America. By Joan T. Mims and Elizabeth M. Nollen. 5th ed. Boston/New York: Bedford/St.       

                Martin's, 2012. 256-59. Print.

Does this work?

It should say "Ed. Joan T. Mims and Elizabeth M. Nollen."  They edited the book, they didn't write (all of) it.  

Never use a slash for listing cities:  "Boston and New York" is the acceptable format.  

Otherwise, everything looks correct. 

[sbuwrt102-12-fall2012]

Reminder: Cite Essay #1 texts as separate "chapters"

For in-text citations, cite the last name and page number of the author to that section, e.g. that chapter or article.  

For the works cited page, cite each reading from Mirror on America as a separate citation.  This structure means that you should cite the texts as the equivalents of chapters in an anthology, reference text, or collection.  This link at Purdue OWL (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/06/) offers the formatting, and EasyBib.com has a "Chapter/Anthology" option.  Remember that chapter citations require naming the authors, the title of the section (chapter), the book's title, the editor('s/s') name(s), and all other information you would cite in any book, including the numbers for that section's first and last pages.  Remember that Mims and Nollen should be listed as editors, not as authors, translators, or anything else.