MLA

Formatting
project
Brooke Bird, Riley Cable, Riley
Ramos, Milton Adams
 FORMATTING
Heading Font
Name (First Name and Last Name) Times New Roman
12 Point
Teacher (Mr. or Mrs.) Spacing
Class (Subject) Double Spacing

Date (Day Month Year)

Heading (Upper Left Hand Corner)

In the upper right corner (Last name, Page)

 FORMATTING
Margins Example
1 Inch Margin

Tips
Title is the same font and size as the rest of the
essay

The title is NOT bolded and NOT underlined

 Works Cited
Basic Formatting Example
Works Cited
1. When doing works cited, it gets its own page Dean, Cornelia. "Executive on a Mission: Saving the
at the end of your work.
Planet." The New York Times, 22 May 2007,
2. It gets the same header, font, and 1 inch
margin. www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/science/earth/22ander

3. Make sure it is set to double spacing, but
don’t skip spaces in between entries.
4. Indent the second and subsequent lines. This
creates a hanging indent.
5. List pages efficiently, and know that if the
.html?_r=0. Accessed 12 May 2016.
Ebert, Roger. Review of An Inconvenient Truth,
directed by Davis Guggenheim. rogerebert.com, 1
June 2006, www.rogerebert.com/reviews/an-

article is within multiple pages you show inconvenient-truth-2006. Accessed 15 June 2016.

that. (ex.245-250).
6. All works cited ends with period(.)
 Works Cited
Books
Use commas instead of periods between
the publisher, publication date, and
pagination.
A medium is not necessary.
Containers are no longer necessary for
MLA.
DOIs are used instead of URLs.
Use the phrase “Accessed” instead of the
abbreviation “n.d.”
Other sources
When doing a personal interview just use their name
(last, first) , then write personal interview, and then
write the date.
Ex. Smith, Jane. Personal interview. 19
May 2014.
If it is a speech or oral presentation, give the
author’s name, then do the title, if there is one,
continue with the specific name of the conference or
meeting. After that then name the venue and a
description of the presentation.
Ex. Stein,Bob. “Reading and Writing in
the Digital Era.” Discovering Digital
Dimensions, Computers and Writing
Conference, 23 May 2003, Union Club
Hotel, West Lafayette, IN. Keynote
Address.
 In-Text Citations
MLA uses Parenthetical Citation
Parenthetical citation is the method of placing
relevant source information in parentheses after a
quote.
Example
“I like chicken nuggets.” (Adams 157)
“I like chicken nuggets.” (Adams)
“I like chicken nuggets.” (157)
Above are all valid ways to cite a quote in the text
using parenthetical citation.
 In-Text Citation
In-text citations for print sources In-text citations for print sources with
with known author. no known author.

For sources like magazines and books, the If no known author, use a shortened version of the
writer should provide a single word or phrase, title of the work. Place the title in “” and provide a
usually the author's last name, and a page #. page number.

In-text citations for print sources Ex. I LOVEE chicken nuggets. (“I love chicken” 145)
by a corporate author.

Instead of using an author's name, use the

corporation's name. Also use abbreviations if
needed.
 In-Text Citations
Author-page citation for classic and
literary works with multiple editions
If multiple editions of the work exist, put page # and
the appropriate abbreviations for said edition.
Ex. “Milton loves chicken” (145; vol.2)
Citing authors with same last names
If using sources from two different authors with the same
last name, use the first initial of both authors in
parentheses.
Citing works by multiple authors
List both authors last names in parentheses. If there are
three or more authors, list only first authors last name and
replace the rest with “et. all”
 In-Text Citations
Citing multiple works by the same author Citing Indirect Sources

If citing multiple works by the same author, include a
shortened version of the title that you are quoting
from and a page number.
Citing multivolume works
If citing a multivolume work, include the provide
volume number then a semi-colon, then page
number(s).
Citing the Bible
Make sure to give what version of the Bible you are
using, followed by book, chapter, and verse.
Use “qtd. Then indicate the source you actually used
after.
Citing non-print or internet sources
Only provide the text that you are taking from and the
domain of the website.
Multiple Citations
Cite both in the same parenthetical but separate the
citations by a semicolon.
Changes from the 7th to 8th
●
7th Edition MLA edition8th Edition MLA
There are multiple ways of citing for ● There is only 1 way to write citations for all
different types of sources. different mediums due to the way the info is
Ex: Book, Magazine, Website received.
Changes from the 7th to 8th
●
edition
7th Edition MLA
Pseudonyms, abbreviations, and urls were
not acceptable and could not be included
into the works cited page.
● The publisher and city of publication were
included in all types of source citations.
●
8th Edition MLA
You can use pseudonyms for the author’s
name in the works cited (online names,
nicknames), along with abbreviations and
urls. Example: Twitter/Social media handles
● The publisher is no longer needed for some
formats, and the city of publication is no
longer needed at all since it’s unnecessary.
 Works Cited

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