MLA 9th edition Works Cited and In-text Citation

The placement of an in-text or parenthetical citation within a paper is important.  Select which in-text citation is properly done from the options below.

• Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately (Smith 10).
• Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately. (Smith 10)
• Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately. (Smith p.10)
• (Smith 10) Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The four parts of an in-text citation are...

• open parentheses, author's last name, page number, and close parentheses
• open parentheses, author's first name, page number, and close parentheses
• open parentheses, author's last name, a comma, the page number, and a close parentheses
• parentheses, quote, comma, author's last name

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Revkin, Andrew C. “Clinton on Climate Change.” The New York Times, 17 May 2007, www.nytimes.com/video/world/americas/1194817109438/clinton-on-climate-change.html. Accessed 29 July 2016.
Which in-text citation is correct? 

• (Revkin)
• Revkin
• (Clinton on Climate Change 1)
• (Clinton on Climate Change 2007)

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Buffy Slays Academics." BBC News Education. 7 Nov. 2001. BBC. Web. 8 July 2008
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/1642829.stm>.

Which in-text citation is correct?

• (Buffy Slays Academics 1)
• (Buffy Slays Academics 2008)
• (Buffy Slays Academics)
• (BBC News Education)

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A website (www.EnglishRocks.com) with a page called English Rocks with no page numbers. Which citation is CORRECT?

• English rocks (www.EnglishRocks.com).

• English rocks ("English Rocks").

• English rocks (website).

• English rocks (English Rocks).

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

If your source has 3 or more authors, list the first author followed by:

• et. al.

• et al.

• et. al

• et al

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

If you are citing a single internet article using the title, put the title in:

• italics

• quotation marks

• underlined

• parenthesis

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

MLA stands for _______.

• Monkeys Lose Apples

• Modern Learning Application

• Modern Language Association

• Multiple Language Association

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Smith, Snuffy. "How to Go To College." Scribners, 2005. p. 234.

What from the citation goes inside these parenthesis?

According to Snuffy Smith, “The possibilities are endless” (________________).

• Smith 234

• Smith

• 234

• How to Go to College

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of the following Work Cited entry is formatted incorrectly?

• Johnson, Gary. "China's Left Behind Children."
• "China's Left Behind Children." Gary Johnson.
• Reagan, Ronald. "Challenger Disaster."
• Povich, Maury. "Disaster Strikes in Roman Ampitheater."

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9