Transcript MLA Guidelines - Valencia College, Orlando, Florida

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• Type or print in a standard font (e.g.,
Times New Roman) and type size (e.g.,
12 points).
• Top, bottom, and side margins should be
one inch.
• Papers should be double-spaced
throughout. Do not add additional space
between paragraphs or other elements.
• On the first page, type your name, the
instructor’s name, the course number, and the
date on separate lines flush with the left margin.
• Center the title of the paper.
• Double-space between all of these elements.
• Pages (including the title page) should be
numbered in the upper right-hand corner, onehalf inch from the top of the page, and flush with
the right margin. Your last name should be
printed before the page number.
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Begin the list on a new page; continue page numbers from
the text of the paper.
Center the title “Works Cited” one inch from the top of the
page.
Each entry should begin flush with the left margin. If an
entry extends to more than one line, the additional lines
are indented one-half inch.
Entries are alphabetized by author’s last name (or by the
title for works with no author).
Each entry must state the medium of publication (e.g.,
“Print,” “Web,” “DVD”).
All sources in a Works Cited list must be cited in the paper.
If sources not cited are included, the list should be titled
“Works Consulted.”
• Book by a single author:
Descharnes, Robert. Dali. New York:
Abrams, 1985. Print.
• Book by multiple authors:
Ryan, Leigh, and Lisa Zimmerelli.
The Bedford Guide for Writing
Tutors. 4th ed. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006.
Print.
• Anthology :
Fuller, John, ed. The Oxford Book
of Sonnets. New York: Oxford UP,
2000. Print.
• Work in an anthology:
Dumas, Henry. “The Marchers.” Short
Stories of the Civil Rights
Movement: An Anthology. Ed.
Margaret Earley Whitt. Athens: U
of Georgia P, 2006. Print.
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In a scholarly journal :
Mates, Lewis. “Durham and South Wales
Miners and the Spanish Civil War.”
Twentieth Century British History 17.3
(2006): 373-395. Print.
In a magazine:
Will, George F. "Electronic Morphine."
Newsweek 25 Nov. 2002: 92. Print.
In a newspaper:
Lowry, Bryan. “Tom Cruise’s PR Firm Seeks
Extensive TV Restrictions.” Los Angeles
Times 14 July 1999: F2+. Print.
• An entire Internet site:
The Burlington Magazine. 2009. Web. 13
Jan. 2009.
• An article :
Ceaser, James W. “Relativism as
Political Absolutism.” The New
Criterion Jan. 2009. Web. 13 Jan.
2009.
• Use parenthetical references in the text to
indicate the source from which you have taken
specific material (quotation, paraphrase, fact,
or idea).
• These references should be very specific; use
page numbers whenever you can.
• References should be as concise as possible.
• Most references will include the author’s
name and page number, without punctuation
between them.
• If the author’s name appears in your text,
indicate only the page number(s) in the
reference.
• References should ordinarily be placed at the
end of the sentence, before the period.
• Single author, name in text:
Harrison argues that this relationship is
more complex (247).
• Single author:
The protagonist’s anxiety may derive from
childhood trauma (Beckwith 35).
• Multiple authors:
Recent research has identified this to be a
previously unknown early work by Rubens
(Thompson and Bartley 142).
• Direct quotation:
In 1972, Farrington argued that The
Searchers “exhibits intolerable racism and
cruelty” (79); however, the film is highly
regarded today.