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Paper Format - MLA Style

The document provides guidelines for formatting a paper using MLA style, including specifications for margins, font, spacing, indentation, titles, page numbers, and quotations. It indicates that quotes shorter than four lines should use quotation marks and be included in the body text, while longer quotes should be indented without quotation marks. Parenthetical citations should include the author's last name and page number. The bibliography section describes how references should be organized alphabetically by author's last name, with book and periodical titles italicized and article and chapter titles in quotation marks. Examples are provided of different source formats such as books, articles, and websites.

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Paper Format - MLA Style

The document provides guidelines for formatting a paper using MLA style, including specifications for margins, font, spacing, indentation, titles, page numbers, and quotations. It indicates that quotes shorter than four lines should use quotation marks and be included in the body text, while longer quotes should be indented without quotation marks. Parenthetical citations should include the author's last name and page number. The bibliography section describes how references should be organized alphabetically by author's last name, with book and periodical titles italicized and article and chapter titles in quotation marks. Examples are provided of different source formats such as books, articles, and websites.

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Paper format – MLA style

Layout

 Margins: left/right/top/bottom – 1 inch (2,54 cm)


 Font – Times New Roman, 12
 Spacing – double-space EVERYTHING
 Justify your body text
 Titles – Times New Roman, 14, bold, centered; capitalize all the significant words in the title
 Subtitles – Times New Roman, 12, bold, left
 Page numbers – upper right corner starting from contents
 Remember not to number title pages – put them in a separate document
 Indentation - Indent the beginning of each paragraph using one tab space (0,5 inch = 1,27
cm)

Quotations

 Quotes that are less than four lines will be included in the body text with quotation marks
 Quotes longer than 4 lines separated from text – no quotation marks; each line indented (1
tab = 0,5 inch = 1,27 cm)
 Use parenthetical references for quotes – last name of the author and the page number
 Punctuation goes inside the quotation marks
 Periods always go AFTER a parenthetical citation, except with a block quote (longer than 4
lines)
e.g. Writing should remain “each student’s own” (Fulwiler 190).
 A citation with two or three authors:
(Oliu, Brusaw, and Alred 340).
 Four or more authors:
(Belanoff et al. 132).
 Page numbers only in citations – if the author is included in the text
Sanborn notes that the students “cannot combine the sentences without knowing what the
words mean” (66).

Bibliography

 Alphabetical order, hanging; all the works cited should be mentioned in your bibliography
 Titles of books, plays, magazines, journals, newspapers, movies, television shows, compact
discs, and Web sites are to be italicized.
 Titles of articles, short stories, essays, poems, and songs are in quotation marks.
 You should mention the author (family name, first name), title, town, publishing house and
the year it was published
 You also need to mention if you used a hard copy or an internet source (in the latter case
you have to mention the accessing date)

Example:

Andrews, David. The History of Scotland. New York: Carol Press, 2008. Print. (one author)
Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 2nd ed.
Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. Print. (two or three authors)
Gallagher, Gary W., ed. Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General
Edward Porter Alexander. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1989. Print. (editor)
Hoftstede, Geert. Cultural Dimensions. Itim International. Web. 15 July 2010.
<http://www.geert-hofstede.com/> (web)
Ozretich, Rachel, et al. Case Studies in Early Childhood Education: Implementing
Developmentally Appropriate Practices. Boston: Merrill, 2010. Print (four or more
authors)
Zuckert, Michael P. “Natural Rights.” Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Ed. Alan Charles
Kors. Vol. 3. New York: Oxford UP, 2003. Print. (article)
Tyre, Peg. “Standardized Tests in College?” Newsweek . Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2007. Web. 7
July 2009. <http://www.newsweek.com/id/70750>. (article on the web)

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