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MLA Citation Guidelines and Notes

The document provides guidance on properly formatting citations and references according to MLA style. It defines what MLA stands for, the purpose of citations, defines in-text citations and parenthetical citations, discusses what needs to be cited and where the works cited page is located, and provides examples of correctly and incorrectly formatted citations and references.

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MLA Citation Guidelines and Notes

The document provides guidance on properly formatting citations and references according to MLA style. It defines what MLA stands for, the purpose of citations, defines in-text citations and parenthetical citations, discusses what needs to be cited and where the works cited page is located, and provides examples of correctly and incorrectly formatted citations and references.

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1. What does MLA stand for?

_____________________________________________________
modern language association

MLA
2. Proper MLA citations do four things:
1. Help curious readers retrace your research steps.
2. Help you build _____________________
credibility and be more likely to win your argument. GUIDED
3. Give ______________
credit to the people who’ve done the work you want to talk about. NOTES
4. Allow you to avoid a charge ofplagiarism
__________________________.

3. In-text citations are also sometimes called _____________________________________________


parenthetical notation
As we work
through the
lecture, fill in
4. What needs to be cited in your essay? the answers
• Anything that does not come from you.
5. In an essay packet, where is the works cited page located?
• Located on the Last Page of the Essay.
6. Is this in-text citation correctly formatted? Why or why not? “I like girls, girls, girls, girls, girls, girls, girls.” (Bieber, p. 185).
• No, there should be no period at end of the quote, no comma between author and page.
7. If you use a signal phrase in the sentence, does the author’s name still need to be
included in the in-text citation? Yes No

8. Will every works cited entry have all nine core elements? Yes No

9. For works cited entries, how is an author’s name listed?


• Last Name, First Name
10. Give two examples of a source:
• Chapter or Section Title and Website Article Headline/Title.
11. Give two examples of a container:
• Title of Academic Journal and Database Name
12. Should you include the full url for web resources? Why or why not?
• Yes, teachers /professors read papers on screens and to have
a clickable link.
13. Which of the nine core elements of a works cited entry end with a period?
• 1, 2, and 9
14. Would the title of a song be italicized or placed in quotation marks? Why?
• The title of the song should be place in quotation marks,
but the whole album would be in italics.
15. You want to use a full article about Albert Einstein found on pages 26 to 31 of Discover Magazine, which is produced by
Kalmbach Publishing. This particular edition of the magazine was published in June 2016 and is labeled as Vol. 37, No. 5. The
article, All in His Head, was written by Andy Berger. Build the works cited entry:

• Berger, Andy. “All in His Head” Discover Magazine, Vol. 37, No. 5, Kalmbach Publishing,
June 2016, pp. 26-31.

16. What’s the recommended font style and size for formal essay writing? • Times New Roman and Font 12

17. If you get stuck figuring out how to cite something, what should you do? • [Link]

Common questions

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This in-text citation is not correctly formatted because there should be no period at the end of the quote and no comma between the author and page number .

The works cited entry should be: Berger, Andy. “All in His Head.” Discover Magazine, Vol. 37, No. 5, Kalmbach Publishing, June 2016, pp. 26-31 .

In a works cited entry, an author’s name should be listed as Last Name, First Name .

A Works Cited page is important because it lists all the sources referenced in the essay, which supports your argument and research credibility. It should be located on the last page of the essay .

Anything that does not originate from your own ideas must be cited in an essay to give proper credit to original authors and avoid plagiarism, thus preserving academic integrity .

Proper MLA citations help curious readers retrace your research steps, build credibility in your argument, give credit to the original authors of the sources, and allow you to avoid a charge of plagiarism .

Not every works cited entry will include all nine core elements, as some sources might lack one or more elements, such as an author or a publisher, depending on the information available .

Including the full URL in the works cited entries is recommended because teachers and professors read papers on screens and it allows for clickable links, facilitating easy access to the resources .

When a signal phrase introduces a sentence, the author's name does not need to be repeated in the in-text citation, as it is already mentioned within the sentence .

The elements of a works cited entry that should end with a period are the author, title of the source, and the location .

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