Works Cited in MLA

MLA: Page Setup and Works Cited

This is the upper left of only the first page.
Honor Pledge
Your name
Teacher's name
Class name
Assignment Due Date

Heading

This is the very upper right corner of every page--your last name and the page number.
1. Get into the header.
2. Insert -> Page Number
3. Type your last name in front.

Header

Page Setup

Multiple Select

What should be in the header of every page?

• Honor pledge

• Your last name

• The page number

• The title of your paper

Multiple Choice

How do you get the right page number on every page?

• Go to "insert" and then choose "page number."

• Put "1" on the first page and let Word do its magic.

• Type the number in on each new page.

More about page setup...

Overall Page

• Make sure all your margins are one inch. (Indent each paragraph 1/2 inch.)

• Double-space everything.

• Remove space after each paragraph. You can set this up for the whole paper where you go to double-space.

Font

• Use twelve point black font. (Some professors may allow 11 or 13.)

• Font should be easy to read. Pick Times New Roman, Arial, or Calibri.

Multiple Select

When you're setting up spacing, what do you need to do?

• Double-space

• Add space after paragraph

• Remove space after the first paragraph and Word will remove space after all the rest

• Remove space after each paragraph

Multiple Choice

Pretend you are writing a sentence with a quote from page 73 of Ron Chernow's book Titan. Finish the sentence below with correctly located quotation marks and a correct parenthetical citation.

To support his point, he says that oil was the only "illuminant that burned in a bright, clean, safe manner______________

• ." (Chernow 73).

• (Chernow 73)."

• " (Chernow, 73).

• " (Chernow 73).

Multiple Choice

Pretend you are writing a sentence with a quote from page 73 of Ron Chernow's book Titan. Finish the sentence below with correctly located quotation marks and a correct parenthetical citation.

To support his point, Chernow says that oil was the only "illuminant that burned in a bright, clean, safe manner______________

• " (page 73).

• " (Chernow).

• " (73).

• " (Chernow 73).

Multiple Choice

Pretend you are writing a sentence paraphrased from a webpage titled "How to Knit for Beginners." It has no author or page numbers. Finish the sentence below with a correct parenthetical citation.

• (How to Knit for Beginners).

• ("How to Knit for Beginners").

• Trick question. You don't need a citation when you paraphrase.

• Not enough information. You need to include the paragraph number.

Works Cited page: Setup

1. Insert -> Page Break to start a brand new page.

2. Center the first line and write Works Cited. (No special formatting!)

3. Go to the setup for the paragraph and choose Hanging Indents.

4. Make sure to put everything in alphabetical order by the first letter in each citation.

Dropdown

In MLA, what do you title the page where you list all your sources? ​

Select answer

The Purdue Owl website (you can just google it) is your friend. Click on
MLA Formating and Style guide.

​Doing it Manually

Citations on Works Cited page

​Not this! ->

How to use Purdue OWL

How to use Purdue OWL

Basic source? Scroll down and follow the directions!

<-This!

How to use Purdue OWL

​Source that's unusual/ got something weird?

Find the correct category
<- on the side and then follow the directions and example. ->

Multiple Choice

Give it a try! Google "Purdue OWL" and use the website to answer the question:

When you put a basic book on your Works Cited page, what information comes last?

• Publication date
• Book title
• Author's name
• Publisher's name

Multiple Choice

Stay put at the Purdue OWL website.

If Sally Gleick wrote the book Making Things Boring and you include it on your Works Cited page, how do you start the citation?

• Gleick, Sally

• Sally Gleick

• Making Things Boring

But do I always have to do it by following the directions?

No--but be careful!

You can use websites like EasyBib to generate your citations. However, you still need to know what it should look like, because there are many common mistakes that happen with citation generators.

• Make sure the information it finds matches the version you used.

• Check for incorrect capitalization.

• Check that it looks right. Did it do something weird like putting the year second?

After it gives results...

• Make sure it's set to the most recent MLA. DON'T USE APA for English classes.

• Make sure you have the source handy to fill in any information it asks for.

Before you start...

What to definitely watch out for...

Reorder

Reorder the following to be in the right order for a book citation.

• Murray,

• Janice.

• Odes to MLA Citations.

• Friendly Neighborhood Publisher,

• 2023.

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2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5