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1、MLA英语论文格式简介MLAdocumentationiscommonlyusedinEnglishandforeignlanguageandliteraturecourses,aswellasinotherdisciplinesinthehumanities.Inthe2003MLAHandbookforWritersofResearchPapers(NewYork:MLA),theMLArecommendstheuseofaparentheticalsystemofdocumentation.InMLAstyleyou
2、brieflycreditsourceswithparentheticalcitationsinthetextofyourpaper,andgivethecompletedescriptionofeachsourceinyourWorksCitedlist.TheWorksCitedlist,orBibliography,isalistofallthesourcesusedinyourpaper,arrangedalphabeticallybyauthor'slastname,orwhenthereisnoauthor,b
3、ythefirstwordofthetitle(exceptA,AnorThe).Underlineoritalicizetitlesofbooks,periodicals,films,andtelevisionseries(butnotindividualepisodes),althoughtheMLArecommendsunderlininginsteadofitalicizingforbooktitles.PartIParentheticalSystemofDocumentationorin-textcitation
4、stylesWhenyouquoteorparaphraseaspecificportionofatextinasource,giveenoughinformation--mosttypicallytheauthor'slastnameandthepagenumber--toidentifytheexactlocationoftheborrowedmaterial.Theauthor'snamemayappeareitherinthesentenceitselforinparenthesesfollowingthequot
5、ationorparaphrase,butthepagenumber(s)shouldalwaysappearintheparentheses,notinthetextofyoursentence.Parentheticalcitationsdonotincludetheword"page"or"pages"ortheabbreviations"p."or"pp."--justthepagenumbersthemselves.Whenreferringtoplaysorpoems,citedivisions(canto,b
6、ook,act,etc.)Theparentheticalinformationshouldcomplement,notrepeat,informationgiveninyourtext(e.g.,ifyoumentiontheauthor'snameinyourtext,youdonotincludeitinthecitation)Fordetails,seethefollowing:1.BasicFormat:ThebasicformatforMLAin-textcitationisasfollows:(Author’
7、sLastName_PageNumber)e.g.,.Oneauthorclaimsthat"nooneisconcernedwiththisissue"(Jones45).Iftheauthor’slastnameappearsinthecitation,thenonlyapagenumberisrequired:e.g.,"HowardJonesarguesthat‘nooneisconcernedwiththisissue’"(45).2.MultipleAuthorsMultipleauthorsarecitedi
8、nasimilarway,althoughbothnamesareincluded,andjoinedbytheword"and":e.g.,(CortezandJones56)Formorethanthreeauthors,usethefirstauthor’slastname,followedbyt