MLA Guidelines

MLA Guidelines

 

The MLA (Modern Language Association) gives specific guidelines for citing sources. In MLA style, referring to the works of others in your text is done in 2 ways. When you make reference to someone else’s idea, either through paraphrasing or quoting them directly, you:

• provide the author’s name (or the title of the work) and the page (or paragraph) number of the work in a parenthetical citation
• provide full citation information for the work in your Works Cited list

Sites to help with the MLA guidelines

 

• http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/mla.html- The Writing Center, designed by the University of North Carolina, is to introduce students to the concepts and formats of MLA citation.
  

• http://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citmla.htm- site by the Long Island University
  

• http://www.libs.uga.edu/ref/mlastyle.html- Web page designed by the University of Georgia
  

• http://www.rih.org/library/mla.php

 

• http://www.citationmachine.net/index.php?callstyle=1&all=

 

 

Step-by-step instructions for creating a bibliography online:

• http://www.easybib.com/#sourceList

Keep this window open then start this page again and click on the easybib address.

• Open a new word document
• Put your name and period on separate lines in the upper right hand corner - use the right alignment
• Press enter twice and then type Works Cited which should be centered on your page by using the center alignment
• Press enter twice and put your spacing back to the left alignment.
• Go back to the web page and click on your source type. 
• Fill in the information and click on submit. Highlight the information about your source.
• Go back to your word document and paste the information you entered in the document. Press enter. Press enter again to put a space between the entries.
• Go back to the web page and continue the same procedure with the remainder of your sources..
• Save your file