1. Center for Writing and Languages
MLA
Center for Writing and Languages

2. Everything Double Spaced
margin
½ in. margin
Last
name
Name
Professor
Class
Date
Page
number
Everything Double Spaced
Title
1 in.
margin
1 in.
margin
1 in.
margin

3. Summary
Citation
Author’s name
Direct
Quote
Block Quote
Citation without author

4. Block quotations
Quotations that are more than four lines in your paper (not in the original text)
Indent entire quote 1in. (one tab more than the normal text)
Do not use quotation marks
Double space like rest of paper
Insert the period before parenthetical citation

5. Works Cited Works Cited (Example to follow)
Title: Works Cited (not Bibliography or References)
Top of new page
Center aligned
Sources
Alphabetical order by first word
Hanging indent

6. Everything Double Spaced
Last Name
Title
Page Number
Everything Double Spaced

7. Everything Double Spaced
Last Name
Title
Page Number
Everything Double Spaced

11. Other Citations Articles in Periodicals
Author. “Title.” Journal volume: issue* (year):
pages. Print.
Horowitz, Evan. “George Eliot: The Conservative.”
Victorian Studies 69 (2006): Print.
* Only include the issue number if the pagination starts over in each separate issue. Leave it out if pagination continues through a whole volume of a periodical.

12. Other Citations Web sources (184-187) An entire website:
Author or Editor (if given). Title of the site. Name of corporate provider (N.p. if none given), date of electronic publication. Web. Date of access.
Liberty University. N.p., Web. 2 May 2007.

13. Other Citations An article in a database:
Author. “Title.” Journal volume.issue (year): pages/paragraphs. Subscription service. Web. Date of access.
Schmoe, Joe. “Online Article.” Online Writing (2004): 56 pars. JSTOR. Web. 2 May

14. Abbreviations Abbreviations within sources
Geographic locations are abbreviated
Ohio - OH
Ontario - ON
Turkey - Turk.
Common Publishers' names
American Library Association – ALA
W.W. Norton & Sons, Publishers – Norton
University Press – UP (U of Illinois P, Notre Dame UP)
*For a further listing of abbreviations (both in the text and works cited) see the MLA handbook.

15. Works Cited
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: MLA, Print.