MLA Citation Guidelines and Practices

This video tutorial by Jessica from Scribbr provides a comprehensive guide on how to create MLA in-text citations. It covers the basic structure, placement, and handling of citations with multiple authors or missing information. The tutorial also explains how to cite different types of sources, including self-contained works and those within larger works. Special cases, such as citing multiple works by the same author or secondary sources, are also addressed. The video emphasizes the importance of accurate citations for academic writing and offers tools like Scribbr's citation generator to simplify the process.

What is the primary purpose of an MLA in-text citation?

• To summarize the entire paper

• To list all references

• To provide a detailed analysis

• To identify the source of information

Where should a parenthetical citation be placed in a sentence?

• Before the quote or paraphrase

• After the period

• At the beginning of the paragraph

• Directly after the quote or paraphrase

How should you cite a source with two authors in MLA style?

• List only the first author

• Use 'et al.' after the first author

• Use the title of the work

• Name both authors

What should you do if the author of a source is unknown?

• Use the publisher's name

• Cite the first element of the Works Cited entry

• Use 'Anonymous' as the author

• Leave the author field blank

How should you cite a source that does not have page numbers?

• Leave the citation blank

• Use the title of the work

• Include only the author's name

• Use paragraph numbers

When citing a self-contained work, how should the title be formatted?

• In bold

• In quotation marks

• In italics

• Underlined

What should you do if you cite more than one work by the same author?

• List the works in alphabetical order

• Use only the author's last name

• Add a shortened title to the citation

• Use the full title of each work

How can you distinguish between different authors with the same last name?

• Use the authors' initials

• Use the authors' full names

• Use their birthdates

• Use the title of their work

What abbreviation is used when citing a quote found in a secondary source?

• cited in

• quoted from

• qtd. in

• ref. in

What is the recommended action if you find a quote in a secondary source?

• Use both sources interchangeably

• Always cite the secondary source

• Seek out the original source and cite it directly

• Ignore the original source