RESOURCE General Guidelines
Type your paper on a computer.
Print it on white 8.5 x 11 inch paper.
Double-space the text. Use Times New Roman, size 12.
Set the margins to 1 inch on all sides.
MLA is a parenthetical documentation system. A parenthetical documentation system has two parts:
In-text citation in parentheses.
A list of works cited at the end of the paper.
In-text Citations
Parenthetical citations are used to document any external sources used within a document. You must use in-text citations when you quote or paraphrase an external source. Immediately following a quotation or a paraphrase of a source’s ideas, you place the author’s name followed by a space and the relevant page number(s). Parenthetical citations direct readers to the full bibliographic citations listed in the Works Cited.
Example: Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).
Works Cited
Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your paper.
Label the page "Works Cited".
Citations are listed alphabetically by author’s name.
** USE EasyBib to format your Works Cited page. http://www.easybib.com
More information about MLA formatting
Purdue University http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
Modern Language Association http://www.mla.org/
Formatting Papers at BHS
Using MLA Style
(Modern Language Association)
8
Excellent Online Resources
TEL (Tennessee Electronic Library) http://tntel.tnsos.org/
A great source for full text books, current magazine and newspaper
Articles, no adds, everything is reliable.
Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/
Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/
Cut through the junk and go directly to reliable resources.
Citation Helpers:
BibMe: http://www.bibme.org/
Fast and Easy
EasyBib: http://www.easybib.com/
Free Automatic Citation maker
Son of Citation Machine: http://citationmachine.net/
Fill In the Blanks and this will create your citation for you!
"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one." Neil Gaiman
Type your paper on a computer.
Print it on white 8.5 x 11 inch paper.
Double-space the text. Use Times New Roman, size 12.
Set the margins to 1 inch on all sides.
MLA is a parenthetical documentation system. A parenthetical documentation system has two parts:
In-text citation in parentheses.
A list of works cited at the end of the paper.
In-text Citations
Parenthetical citations are used to document any external sources used within a document. You must use in-text citations when you quote or paraphrase an external source. Immediately following a quotation or a paraphrase of a source’s ideas, you place the author’s name followed by a space and the relevant page number(s). Parenthetical citations direct readers to the full bibliographic citations listed in the Works Cited.
Example: Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).
Works Cited
Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your paper.
Label the page "Works Cited".
Citations are listed alphabetically by author’s name.
** USE EasyBib to format your Works Cited page. http://www.easybib.com
More information about MLA formatting
Purdue University http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
Modern Language Association http://www.mla.org/
Formatting Papers at BHS
Using MLA Style
(Modern Language Association)
8
Excellent Online Resources
TEL (Tennessee Electronic Library) http://tntel.tnsos.org/
A great source for full text books, current magazine and newspaper
Articles, no adds, everything is reliable.
Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/
Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/
Cut through the junk and go directly to reliable resources.
Citation Helpers:
BibMe: http://www.bibme.org/
Fast and Easy
EasyBib: http://www.easybib.com/
Free Automatic Citation maker
Son of Citation Machine: http://citationmachine.net/
Fill In the Blanks and this will create your citation for you!
"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one." Neil Gaiman
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