Citing Sources with MLA - Legacy EMPOWER 10

MLA Formatting Overview

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Paper Formatting...

Always Check With Your Professor Before Formatting Your Paper.

 

Required:

• Double-Spaced
• 1 inch Margins
• No Title Page
  • Top of First Page (one item per line; left aligned):
    • Your Name
    • Your Professor's Name
    • Course Number
    • Date
    • Center Aligned Title on Fifth Line
• Top Right of Every Page
  • Your Last Name
  • Page Number

Recommended:

• 12 pt. Times New Roman font

 

 

Works Cited Page Formatting...

 

Author/Editor Names

1 Author

• Last Name, First Name.
  • i.e. Doyle, Arthur Conan.

2 Authors

• 1st Author's Last Name, First Name, and 2nd Author's First Name Last Name.
  • i.e. Holmes, Sherlock, and John Watson.

3+ Authors

• 1st Author's Last Name, First Name, et al.
  • Holmes, Sherlock, et al.

*et al. - and others

 

 

Titles

All Titles

• Capitalize Each Word EXCEPT:
  • Articles (a, an, the)
  • Prepositions
  • Conjunctions
    • Capitalize above exceptions if they are the first word of a title or subtitle
• i.e. Zombie Myths of Australian Military History: The 10 Myths That Will Not Die.

Large Works (Books, Journals, Websites)

• Italicize the Title
  • i.e. Australian Military History.

Short Works (Articles, Essays, Chapters)

• Put Quotation Marks ("...") Around the Title
• Do NOT Italicize
  • i.e. "Laying Ghosts to Rest".

 

 

Publisher Information

General Format

• Publisher's Name, Year.
  • i.e. Dodd, 1958.

University Presses

• Use:
  • U for University
  • P for Press
• i.e. U of Nebraska P

 

 

List Order

List Citations in Alphabetical Order!

Two or More Sources Have Same Author

• List Citations Alphabetically by Author Then List By Title
• Author Name Replaced with - - -.

i.e.

Doyle, Arthur Conan.  The Book of Sherlock Holmes.  World Publisher, 1950.

- - -. Famous Tales of Sherlock Holmes.  Dodd, 1958.

 

 

Indentation

First Line of Citation

• Flush Left With Margin

All Other Lines of Citation

• Indent 1/2 Inch from Left Margin

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