Here are rules to capitalize on the mla style title case. Practice formatting works cited page summer reading assignment due tuesday, august 11, 2015 part one. These rules apply to titles in the text, in parenthetical citations, and in works cited page entries. The beacon book of essays by contemporary american. Only capitalize the first word of main heading and subheadings. Alphabetize by the authors last name, book title, or website name. A works cited page is a supreme tally of all the works you have specifically referenced in your paper. Create a works cited list for the following sources using mla style. Mla writing style is crucially important for scholarly papers or academic papers. Note that galeforce is not in websters so if we were crafting this title we would style it galeforce.
They follow various formats, depending on your audience. Mla citation style is primarily used in the liberal arts and humanities fields. Mla style citation worksheet clackamas middle college. A title appears the same way no matter where in a document it appears. In most cases the default is to use the mla style of citations.
Mla titles how to format and capitalize source titles. Use quotation marks around the title if it is part of a larger work e. In the print popup, click the save button in the save as popup window, give the file a name. Capitalize allimportant words and hyphenated words. Mla modern language association style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. Modern language association mla format and documentation. This resource, updated to reflect the mla handbook 8 th ed. What 4 things are doublespaced and go in the heading in the upperleft of the first page of the. Basic formatting one of the most important skills needed to be successful in this course is knowing how to properly use mla. Select either print all slides or print current slide. This is not the print button at the bottom of the page. Mla style, following chicago, capitalizes the first letter of the first and last words of a title and the first letter of any other words in the title unless they are articles or prepositions, so in your example, we would capitalize not only flood but also all the other words in the title. To cite a print book with one author citing the entire book. Dispite the first line, indent the following lines.
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