Question

Now that you know where to put your citations, you want to make sure you’re formatting them correctly. You ask the library director for help again. She explains that papers written for English Language Arts classes about literature should be written in MLA format. Since you’re creating a video about literature, she suggests using MLA format when creating your citations.

You start with an academic journal article located on the library’s online database.

What should your citation from the journal article begin with in MLA format?
Question 8 options:

The author's last name


The name of the journal


The year the article was published


The article's title

Answer 1

The author's last name.

(MLA entries begin with the author's name formatted Lastname, Firstname — e.g., Smith, Jane.)