MLA rules:

You have the formatting page on the Home Page of the website that shows you
basics about formatting your paper. Five line header; page numbers with last name
on all pages (except the first page) at the top right hand of the page, no page
number on Works Cited page (its recommended that you create a new document
for a Works Cited); one inch margins; double-space the entire paper; title centered
(and your title does not require quotation marks or italics unless you incorporate the
title of the piece youre analyzing, and then only the title of that piece will be
designated).
Italics are used to denote: magazines, journals, novels, movies, plays, newspapers,
database titles, websites
Quotation marks should go around these titles: short stories, poems, songs, essay
and articles
You have a link to the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) on the Home page of our
syllabus website. I will use this and the textbook to demonstrate standard entries
that students use.
In-text citations: whatever you place in the parentheses ( ) should match the entry
on your works cited page. If you have not named the author of the piece in the setup of the quotation youre using, then you include the author and the page number
in the parenthetical citation (Smith 20). Any punctuation other than a question mark
or an exclamation point will not be included in your quotation. The period (or
comma if youre continuing the sentence) will be placed outside of the closed
parentheses.
Your textbook and OWL both give you excellent examples of how to structure an intext citation if there is not author title etc.
EVERY quotation should be cited and EVERY paraphrase (where all you have done
is change the wording of someones work) should be followed by parenthetical (intext) documentation.
MLA MODERN LANGUAGES ASSOCIATION functions as a cross-reference for your
reader. They should be able to turn to your Works Cited page with every quotation
in your paper and locate the entry and then, be able to locate where you got your
information.
Standard format you will follow (adding or taking away information that is or is not
available to you):
Author (last name, first name). The title of the piece. Where you found the piece.
Place it was
Published: Company that published it, year it was published. Page numbers.
Print or Web.

Works cited entries are double spaced and second lines are indented.
Practice examples (we are going to dissect each one of these entries to determine
where they came from)
Cooke, James E. Alexander Hamilton. World Book Encyclopedia. 1996 ed. Print.
Wilk, Max. Every Days a Matinee. New York: Norton, 1975. Print.
Melvin, Herman. The Confidence Man. Ed. Hersel Parker. New York: Norton, 1971.
Print.
Pfennig, David. Kinship and Cannibalism. Bioscience 47 (1997): 667-75. Print.
Navarro, Mireya. Women in Sports Cultivating New Playing Fields. New York Times
on the Web
13 Feb. 2001. Web. 22 Feb. 2001.
Clemetson, Lynette. A Ticket to Private School. Newsweek 27 Mar. 200: n. pag.
LexisNexis.
Web. 5 May 2000.
Try it yourself:
1. An online article with no author titled Robert Frost: A Reader Response
Perspective. The article appears on the online journal Off the Wall and had a location
of http://www.offthewall.com/articles/backdated_bin_RobertFrost_archive.html. The
article is listed with the date May 8, 2003, but you found it on January 4, 2004.
An interview of playwright Neil Simon. The interview was titled Neil Simon on the
new York Theater and appeared in the September 3, 1997, issue of the Long Island
News, on pages C4 and C5. The interviewer was Pearl Barnes.
A book written by Jean Descola and titled A History of Spain. The book, translated by
Elaine Pl Halperin, was published in 1962 by Alfred A. Knopf in New York.
A Dolls House from our textbook. (see page 27 for an example).
If you used a definition of structure from our textbook, this would have been
written by the editors. How would you cite this in a Works Cited and in an in-text
documentation. The definition is on page 115.