MLA-Style Quiz! - VIRTUAL PLAY

What source? Colbert, Stephen. Home page. 1 Nov, 2006 <http://colbertnation.com>

Which of the following is true about block quotes:

Only use "et al" when you are citing a text with more than 3 authors.

Give only first city listed for the place of publication and do not list state names, regardless how obscure the city.

Jackson, G. "Multiple Historic Meanings" Science and Society (2004): 27-28, EBSCO. Brook Library <http://www.epnet.com>

You only use block quotes when quoting more than 4 lines (not sentences) of text.

What is MLA?

Kramer, C, "A Health Threat." New York Times 22 June 2003, matl. ed: A14

When you use quotations in the text, you place the citation before the last quotation mark.

MLA prefers Times New Roman font

When documenting one author by name in a text, which is correct?

You should underline the title of a text, but not the period at the end in the Works Cited page.

Which is the correct way to cite a website?

When documenting one author in reference in-text, which is correct?

What source? Peterman, J. "Eat This Now!" US News and World Report 28 Mar. 2005: 56-58

Author's names are listed alphabetically in reverse order on the Works Cited page.

What does MLA stand for?

Alphabetize your Works Cited page include "A", "An", or "The" as the first word of a title.

MLA is a method of citing references in research papers

What source? Foreman, Red, "In Forecasting Their Emotions" New York Times 16 Feb 1999, <http://www.nytimes.com>

Van Delay, A. Seinfeld: The Show About Nothing. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.

You should not use author's last names in the citation if the authors' name appears in text.

What source? Tyson, P. "The Psychology of Women". Journal of the American Psychoanalytic 46 (1998): 361-64.

Which is true of a Works Cited page?

For multiple authors of the same text in your Works Cited page, list in reverse order, with commas, and a period at end.

What source? Crane, Niles F. "Anarchy at Sea". Atlantic Monthly Sept. 2003: 50-80.

Which is true of a Works Cited page?

What Source? American Association for Artificial Intelligence. 17 March 2001. <http://www.aaai.org.

What Source? Venetian Blinds: Study of Lying. New York: Pendant Publishing. 1994

Quotation marks should be placed around titles of short works (articles, poems, short stories, essays).

What Source? The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2003

When documenting one author by name in a text, which is correct?

You should capitalize every word in a title

What source? Bernstein, Bartin J. "Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Nagasaki." Diplomatic History 28.3 (1991): 126-29.

What source? Creation of the Media: Political Origins of the Media. Los Angeles: Houghton-Miffin, 1922.