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SPE 103-002 - Tim Curtis - Spring 2024

What do MLA Citations Look Like?

Two essential ways to use citations in your paper are shown below.

Information from an article from the Opposing Viewpoints database on the topic of universal basic income needs to be cited

1) in the text

AND

2) on the Works Cited page.

An in-text citation in your paper with a quote or a paraphrase

"The Chicago City Council is poised to vote this week on what would be one of the nation's largest basic income programs, giving 5,000 low-income households $500 per month." (Guarino)

A complete citation for the same article will be included on the Works Cited page at the end of your paper.

Guarino, Mark. "Chicago poised to create one of the nation's largest 'guaranteed basic income' programs." Washingtonpost.com, 25 Oct. 2021, Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A680194390/OVIC?u=uiuc_oak&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=0b1b47bb.

Here's a link to the article if you want to see more.

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A680194390/OVIC?u=uiuc_oak&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=0b1b47bb

How Do I Use MLA Citations in a PowerPoint Presentation?

  • To cite sources in a slide presentation, MLA suggests including brief citations on each slide that includes material from your sources, including quotations, summaries and paraphrases, images, or data.
  • Include a works-cited list on a slide at the end of your presentation.
  • MLA also suggests providing your list of sources to your audience, either through a URL or printed copy that you hand out in your presentation.

 For more details, see the MLA Handbook, 8th ed., pp. 127-28.

 

"MLA Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)." The OWL at Purdue. 2024, 
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_faqs.html 

Your List of Sources and Citations - the MLA Works Cited Page

When you are finishing your research paper, it's important to gather up all of your sources and make a list of complete citations for each source.

The list of citations has a specific title in MLA style.

  • Works Cited

Citation lists use the following rules:

  • Start your list of citations on a new page
  • Center the title - Works Cited - at the top of your citation list
  • Arrange the citations in alphabetical order by the last name of the author
  •         or, if there is no author, by the first major word in the title.
  • Double space the information in the list
  • Use a hanging indent for each entry
  • Do not number items in the list of citations

Rebecca Crown. (2020, April 30). Hanging Indent [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/ZGNU5C0Z8qg?si=rX1-P0RzslJ7M7sQ

MLA and Citing AI

You should

  • cite a generative AI tool whenever you paraphrase, quote, or incorporate into your own work any content (whether text, image, data, or other) that was created by an AI app or program.
  • acknowledge all functional uses of the tool (like editing your prose or translating words) in a note, your text, or another suitable location 
  • take care to vet the secondary sources it cites

 

An example of an MLA citation for using AI to paraphrase information for an essay.

Works-Cited-List Entry

“Describe the symbolism of the green light in the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald” prompt. ChatGPT, 13 Feb. version, OpenAI, 8 Mar. 2023, chat.openai.com/chat.

”How do I cite generative AI in MLA style?” MLA Style Center, Modern Language Association. 17 Mar. 2023, https://style.mla.org/citing-generative-ai/

Click the link below for more details and examples of in-text and Works Cited citations.