The MLA Style was developed by the Modern Language Association as a standard format for scholarly writing in humanities fields such as language and literature. It provides guidelines for formatting research papers, manuscripts, and bibliographies or works cited pages. Entries in a works cited list following MLA style include the author, title, publisher, and publication date of the source. Sources are alphabetized by the author's last name and subsequent lines of each entry are indented. The purpose is to give proper credit to sources and allow readers to find them.

1. MLA Style BasicsMrs. Santacroce

2. The MLA StyleThe MLA Style was developed by the Modern Language Association as a means to standardize scholarly writing in humanities, particularly language and literature fields.Language studies

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7. BooksThe Works Cited List/BibliographyCommon styles for citing sources are MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian. Developed to standardize scholarly types of writing.The purpose is to give credit to your sources, as well as, help readers find the resources you used. Therefore, the citations and Reference Lists should be complete and accurate.

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9. Entries includeWho? Author(s) names(s) What? Title of workWhere? Publisher/Publication dataWhen? Date of publicationHow? Medium type of work

10. Another sampleWho? Author(s) names(s) What? Title of workWhere? Publisher/Publication dataWhen? Date of publicationHow? Medium type of work

11. Rules to abide by…Begin your Works Cited page on a separate piece of paper with 1 inch margins on every side. Label the page Works Cited.Alphabetize each entry in a works cited list by the first letter, ignoring the articles A, An, and The.

12. Rules to abide by…Indent subsequent lines of entries one-half inch or 5 spaces. (Hanging indentation)Capitalize each word in the titles of articles, books, etc, but do not capitalize articles (the, an, a), prepositions, or conjunctions unless one is the first word of the title or subtitle. E.g. Gone with the Wind The Art of War