9th English Foundation Stories: MLA Format & Citations

Titles : Italics or quotation marks?

Italicize for titles of long form works: novels, movies, journals, newspapers, magazines, websites, plays, movies

The New York Times

The Hunger Games

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Quotation Marks for titles of short form: poems, short stories, songs, an episode of a television series. 

"The Lottery"

"Somewhere over the Rainbow"

 Visit the MLA Handbook Plus for the entire MLA Handbook. 

Guidelines for citing images and photos in a multimedia project:

1. Cite the image either on the slide OR on the last slide of your project with the title and URL Example:

          Orpheus and the Beasts. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vrancx,_Sebastiaan_-_Orpheus_and_the_Beasts_-_c._1595.GIF

2. Cite the image in correct MLA Format for the Bibliography that you will turn in to your teacher. 

Image example from a Database:

          "Zeus." World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras, ABC-CLIO, 2021, ancienthistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/2028915. Accessed 3 Sept.

           2021.

Here is how your heading should look:

How to add the page number with your name: