MLA Format Review for Semester Test

Directions: Answer the following questions on notebook paper. Use your help sheet/powerpoint notes if needed.
1. Why do we need to use a format like MLA when we are writing research papers?
2. What does MLA stand for?
3. Answer the following questions about citing a book:
a. What generally goes first in the citation when you are citing a book?
b. What type of punctuation follows the city of publication?
c. What type of punctuation follows the name of the publisher?
d. What generally comes last in a citation for a book?
4. When writing a citation for a book with two authors, how do you list the second author? How is this different from
the way you list the first author?
5. How do you list the rest of the authors if a book has more than three of them?
6. What comes first in a citation for a book that has no author?
7. If a book has an editor, where does the abbreviation Ed. go in the citation?
8. When citing an article from an encyclopedia or other reference work, you do not include what information that you
would normally include if you were citing a book?
9. What does the word Print mean when you are citing a book, reference book, magazine, etc.?
10. Answer the following questions about citing an article in a magazine:
a. What generally comes first when citing an article in a magazine?
b. What goes in quotation marks?
c. What is in italics?
d. In what order do you put the date?
e. What comes right before the word Print in the citation for a magazine?
11. Answer the following questions about citing an article from a newspaper:
a. What generally comes first when citing an article in a newspaper?
b. What goes in quotation marks?
c. What is in italics?
d. How does a page number for a newspaper look different than one for a magazine?
12. How are the citations for a newspaper and a magazine similar?
13. How are the citations for a newspaper and a magazine different?
14. How can you remember what should be italicized and what should be in in quotes, other than simply memorizing
it?
15. Answer the following questions about citing an entire website:
a. What generally comes first when citing an entire website?
b. What follows the name of the website?
c. How are the name of the site and the organization affiliated with the cite different?
d. What is the last thing you list when citing an entire website?
16. How is the citation for a page from a website different than a citation for an entire website?
17. How are the citations for online newspapers and online magazines different than the citations for printed
newspapers and printed magazines?
18. Answer the following questions about setting up your paper in MLA format:
a. What size paper should you use?
b. What spacing should you use?
c. What size font should you use?
d. What type of font should you use? Why?
e. How should your margins be set?
f. In what style font should titles be written?
19. Answer the following questions about formatting your MLA Works Cited Page:
a. Where does the heading go?
b. Name three things you should NOT do to the title
c. What kind of indentation should you use?
20. When writing an MLA style paper, when is it okay to skip the in-text citation?