MLA Format

Question 1

Parentheses? /3

Answer 1

Brackets at the end fo a sentence

Includes the author’s last name and page number

Ex. “Is it tru there was a time where firemen used to put out fires?” (Bradbury 36)

If author’s name already mentioned in the same paragraph = just the page number

“…….” (36).

If the author’s name is not given, just put the title of the story in the brackets with quotation marks

Ex. “……”(“Chaperone”).

Question 2

Work cited? /2

Answer 2

Novel:
Last name, First Name. Title (italics or underlined). Publisher. Year of publication. Print.

Short story:
Last name, First name. “Title”. Publisher. Year of publication. Print.

Question 3

Rules to remember when parenthetically citing? /4

Answer 3

Place your punctuation AFTER the bracket

Include the author’s name last name EITHER in the sentence itself or the in the brackets

Don NOT use a comma to separate the author’s name and page number in the brackets

NEVER USE ‘p’ or ‘page’ before the page number

Question 4

Block quotes? /6

Answer 4

Longer than 3 lines

Introduced with a colon [ : ]

Indent one “tab” on each side (right and left margines)

Single space

NO QUOTATION MARKS

Brackets AFTER the punctuation

Question 5

When are square brackets used in a quote?

Answer 5

Changing a few words within the quote

Ex. “Harmony [had] black hair”.

Question 6

When is a ellipsis used in a quote? /2

Answer 6

Ellipsis: … or […]

Removing a few words within a quote