MLA Citations: 9th Edition

Which of the following is a reason to cite your sources? Check all that apply.

• Make you a more credible author

• Give credit to the ideas of others

• Indicate that you are writing in a personal genre

• Help the reader find the sources again

• You are using information from another source.

What does MLA stand for?

• Modern Language Association

• Medical Library of America

• Modern Library Acronym

• Medieval Libraries of America

Which of the following is never correct for an in-text citation?

• (Author's last name page number)

• (page number)

• (your last name and page number)

Which of the following is not true of a works cited page?

• List all sources alphabetically by author's last name

• Use a hanging indent to format these correctly

• Only cite sources that you referred to in your paper

• Cite every source you looked at, even if you did not use information from that source or cite it in your paper.

Never include the author's middle name or middle initial.

• True

• False