MLA Formatting & Citation Review

What does MLA stand for?

• Maroon Lipstick Appetizers

• Modernity Linguistic Associety

• Modern Language Association

• Modern Linguistic Assignment

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

What is a source citation?

• a citation that only tells the name of a source

• a citation that includes all relevant information about a source

• a citation that includes only the author's name and editor's name

• a citation that only includes the author's last name and page number

Tags

CCSS.W.7.8

Where does a source citation belong in a paper?

• on a Works Cited page

• at the beginning of an essay

• within paragraphs of an essay

• at the end of each paragraph

The formatting for a Works Cited page includes

• alphabetically-organized source citations that use a hanging indent

• backwards alphabetically-organized in-text citations

• a numbered list of source citations with extra spaces in between

• centered source citations in a bulleted list

Tags

CCSS.W.7.2A

What are in-text citations based on?

• the first part of the source citation

• the editor's name

• the source's publication date

• your name

Tags

CCSS.W.7.6

CCSS.W.7.8

CCSS.W.7.1B

Where do in-text citations belong in an essay?

• surrounded by parentheses at the end of an evidence sentence

• surrounded by quotation marks in a topic sentence

• surrounded by hashtags at the beginning of a paper

• surrounded by asterisks at the beginning of a summary sentence

Which of the following is the correct in-text citation for this source citation?

Austen, Jane, and Seth Grahame-Smith. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Quirk, 2015. Google Books, books.google.com/books?id=x5xPaPeZzmUC&lpg=PP1&dq=zombies&pg=PP1#v=onepag e&q=zombies&f=false.

• (Jane and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)

• "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"

• (Google Books)

• (Austen and Grahame-Smith)

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.6

Which of the following is the correct in-text citation for this source citation?

James, Henry. The Ambassadors. Serenity, 2009.

• Henry

• James

• (James)

• (The Ambassadors)

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

Which of the following is the correct in-text citation for this source citation?

Doer, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See. Kindle ed., Scribner, 2014.

• Anthony

• "All the Light We Cannot See"

• (Doer)

• (Scribner)

Which of the following is the correct in-text citation for this source citation?

Murakami, Haruki. A Wild Sheep Chase. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum, Vintage Books, 2015.

• A Wild Sheep Chase

• (Birnbaum)

• (Murakami)

• "Murakami"