World Literature
Bragg
MLA Cheat Sheet
· One inch margins.
· Size 12 Times New Roman
· No extra space between paragraphs – just indent.
· Title centered with correct capitalization – no underlining, bold, extra space, etc.
· Last name and page number on upper right-hand side.
· Header: Name, Teacher, Course, Date (Day Month Year)
· For more MLA help, check the Perdue OWL website: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
A Book with One Author
Author Last Name, Author First Name. Title of Book in Italics. Publisher or Press, Year of Publication.
Bragg, Meredith. What Lovely Formatting You Have: Student MLA Masters. MHS P, 2011.
A Work in an Anthology or Textbook.
“Title of Article or Chapter in Quotation Marks.” Title of Entire Book in Italics. Name of Editor. Publisher, Year. Pages.
“You Already Completed a Perfect Citation Example for Your Textbook.” The Language of Literature: World Literature. Arthur N. Applebee, et al. McDougal Littell, 2004. pp. 5078-6950.
An Article in a Magazine
Author Last Name, Author First Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Periodical in Italics. Day Month Year: Pages.
Bragg, Meredith. “How to Make Up Works Cited Page Entries.” Teaching MLA Format Magazine. 17 October 2011, pp. 15-19.
An Article from a Database
Author Last Name, Author First Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Periodical in Italics. Volume.Issue (Year): Pages. Name of Database in Italics. Medium of Publication. Date of access.
Bragg, Meredith. “I Write Many Pretend Articles about MLA.” The Fake MLA Citations Journal. 3.12. (2011): pp. 54-58. GaleNet. Web. 17 October 2011.
A Website
Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site in Italics. Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access.
Bragg, Meredith. Mr. Abel’s Online MLA Empire. Version 2.0. McIntosh High School Web Organization, March 2009. Web. 17 October 2011.
* NOTE: You may not be able to find all the required information for every website. If you have carefully searched for a piece of information (author, organization, date of creation, etc) and cannot locate it, you may leave that part of the citation out.
Annotated Bibliography
Bragg, Meredith. Earning an A on Your Annotated Bibliography. MHS P, 2011.
Your annotated bibliography paragraphs will go here. Your document should look like a normal MLA Works Cited page with a double-spaced, indented paragraph after each citation. Remember that your paragraph does three things: (1) summarizes the type of information available in the source (“This article describes…with a special focus on…”), (2) tells how the source relates to your research (“this provides background information in…but I will need to do more research on…”) and (3) describes the reliability of the source (“this government-sponsored webpage is edited by…and endorsed by…”).