1. MLA FORMATTING and CITATION

2. Pride: The Enemy of Love
MLA Heading and Title
Your first page should contain an MLA Heading which should be left aligned and double spaced.
It should also include you title which should not be bolded, italicized, underlined, or in quotes.
Your first page should look like this:
Doe 1
John Doe
Mr. Calhoun
English I – Period 2
21 October 2011
Pride: The Enemy of Love

3. MLA Formatting Your font needs to be Times New Roman size 12.
Make sure that the font of your last name and page number matches.
Your paper should be evenly double-spaced with no additional spaces between paragraphs, titles or headers.
Margins should be 1-inch on all sides
All paragraphs should be left aligned and indented ½-inch.
Your last name and page number should appear on the right-hand side of the header of every page.

4. MLA Citation
In addition to formatting, MLA governs how you must cite your sources.
Any time you provide evidence from any source other than yourself you must cite your source to give the original author credit for his/her work.
There are two different places where you must cite your sources:
At the end of your essay in what is called a works cited page
Right after the quotation in what is called an in-text citation

5. MLA Works Cited Page
The works cited page should include all of the works to which you make direct reference in your essay, in this case, just “The Scarlet Ibis” .
The words “Works Cited” should function as a title for this page and all citations should be reverse indented. In order to accomplish this use the tool in the margin ruler and drag it to the appropriate locations. See below.
Works cited page should look like this for this essay:
Doe 3
Works Cited
Hurst, James. Holt McDougal Literature Grade 9. “The Scarlet Ibis” (1960). Evanston, Illinois: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Print.

6. Author’s Last Name| Page #
MLA In-Text Citation
Proper MLA in-text citation for “The Scarlet Ibis” looks like this:
(Hurst 467)
Author’s Last Name| Page #
If your quote already contains quotation marks change all quotation marks inside your quotation into apostrophes.
Example: “He’d nod his head and I’d say, ‘Well, if you don’t keep trying, you’ll never learn’” (Hurst 467).

7. MLA In-Text Citation
If your quotation ends with a period or a comma leave it off of the end of the quotation and place a period after the citation.
Example: “He’d nod his head and I’d say, ‘Well, if you don’t keep trying, you’ll never learn” (Hurst 467).
If your quotation ends with a question mark or exclamation point, leave it, then place a period after the citation.
Example: “What are the words that can solder cracked pride?” (Hurst 474).