BIG Picture Details:

• alphabetical order (TIP: ignore "A" & "An" & "The")

• 1 inch margins

• 12 pt. Times, double spaced (NO skipped/blank line between entries)

• hanging indent (1st line at 1 inch margin, 2+ lines indented 1/2 inch)

• centered title 

  • • Works Cited or Annotated Bibliography under heading 

    • NO bold, underline, etc.

Formating

Main Titles: Italicize "big titles" like a Book, Database, Web site, Magazine, Newspaper title (do not underline)

• Tiles are Capitalized

• Article title are in: “Quotation Marks”

• Dates: Day Month (abbreviated) Year: 10 Dec. 2001

Create a WC using NoodleTools:

Step 1: Navigate to your project's Sources screen.

Step 2: Click the blue Export/Print icon button at the top of the screen.

Step 3: Select a file format option from the menu: Print/Export to Google Docs: Creates a Google Doc in your Google Drive. You may be prompted to select your Google account. 

• More detailed "How To" HERE

ONE citation form that follows this chart: 

What goes in the Core Elements chart?

Author: Last, First; for 3+ Authors: list 1st author followed by the phrase: et al,

• "Author" means person responsible for producing source, including editor or translator or director (incl. special title)

Title of source: first letters capitalized (except articles like a, an); since it is a part of the "larger" source (called a "container"), enclose within quotation marks.

• • Example: "Web Page." "Chapter in a Book." "Song on an Album."

  • IF there is no "Smaller" part, then skip this section.

Title of container: container is where the source "lives." Is the source a part of a whole like the page on a Web site or a chapter in a book? The "whole" is the container. Put in italics.

• • Example: Web Site. Book Title. Film Title.

Other contributors: like editor; skip if not applicable

Version: edition (skip is not applicable)

Number: Volume and Issue number written as vol. 72, no. 6 (not 72.6)

Publisher: don't need city for books

Publication date: Order: Day Month (abbreviated) Year: 10 Dec. 2000; if no date is given, leave it out (no more n.d.)

Location: where do you find it? Provide: URL (web address), page number

Source:

Valenza, Joyce. “Shifting into 8th (On MLA’s New Edition).” School Library Journal, 18 Apr. 2016, http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2016/04/18/shifting-into-8th-on-mlas-new-edition/.