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MLA Formatting

Citation Styles Modern Language Association Other formatting styles: Liberal Arts/ Humanities Other formatting styles: APA (American Psychological Association) Psychology, education, social sciences Turabian Universal—all subjects Chicago Universal

MLA Formatting Typed Double spaced EVENLY 12 point font 1” margins Headers with last name and page #s No title page Name, instructor name, course and date in upper left (also double spaced)

Example

In-text Citations Parenthetical Citation Many ways of citing and rules Citing of your source Any source used must appear in a ( ) AND will then appear on your Works Cited page Many ways of citing and rules Database in-text citations Author’s last name in ( )

Example

Works Cited Page Final page of your paper Lists all of the sources that were used Every source on this page MUST appear in your paper somewhere. EVERY source that appears in your paper MUST appear on this page. Alphabetical Order Double spaced

Electronic Database Citation Author and/or editor names Article title in “quotations” Title of the website or book in italics (larger source) Any version numbers (issue, volume, etc.) Publisher information (name and date) Medium of Publication Date accessed

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