A Works Cited list is not required if all in-text citations have the author(s) and the page number(s) of the source.
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False
An MLA Works Cited list appears at the end of the paper on a separate numbered page and contains all works cited in the paper.
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False
Which is a correct Works Cited entry?
Dietel, H., and Dietel, P. C How To Program. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1999.
Dietel, Harvey, and Paul Dietel. C How To Program. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1999.
Dietel, Harvey, and Paul Dietel. "C How To Program". New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1999.
Dietel, H. & Dietel P. C How To Program. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1999.
An MLA Works Cited list is alphabetized based on the title of the source.
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False
If there are two or more books by the same author in a Works Cited list, how should they be recorded?
If two or more books by the same author are cited, the entries for that author in the Works Cited list are alphabetized by title. The name of the author appears only in the first entry; all subsequent entries start with three dashes, followed by a period, the title, and the publishing information.
If two or more books by the same author are cited, the entries for that author in the Works Cited list are alphabetized by title. The name of the author appears in each entry and is followed by a period, the title, and the publishing information.
In MLA style, underlining is preferred instead of italics.
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False
If a source has more than three authors, how should it be cited in the Works Cited list?
All authors' names should be listed in alphabetical order
Only the first author's name should be listed
Only the first author's name should listed followed by et al.
Only the first author's name should be written in full; the rest should have their last names followed by the initials
If an entry in a Works Cited List is longer than one line, second and all subsequent lines need to be indented half an inch.
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False
URLs of electronic sources in a Works Cited List are enclosed in angle brackets.
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False
In MLA style, what would you include in the parentheses for a directly quoted in-text citation?
Author and year of publication: (Doe, 2007)
Author, followed by year of publication, and page number preceded by p.: (Doe, 2007, p. 25)
Author and page number: (Doe, 25)
Author and page number preceded by p.: (Doe, p. 25)
In MLA style, long quotations
... should be enclosed in quotation marks and single-spaced.
... should be indented one inch (all lines) and written without enclosing quotation marks.
... should be indented one inch (all lines) and single-spaced.
Indirect sources are cited
... by enclosing them in single quotation marks.
... by using qtd. in in parentheses followed by the author who used the quote, and the page number.
If the author's last name is mentioned in the text, then it does not need to be included in parentheses.
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False
To cite an anonymous source in text, what information should be included in parentheses?
The word anonymous and the page number
The title of the source and the page number
The shortened form of the title and the page number