This Webpage provides only simple illustrations for a few common quotations. For the different placements of sentence periods under varying circumstances, please see. First page. Following pages. Works-Cited page. When revising your essay, make sure your paper follows MLA style format. This page contains some general guidelines. This page is brought to you by the OWL at Purdue (). When printing this page, you must include the entire legal notice at bottom. MLA Works Cited List Examples Book with Single Author: Gore, Albert. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered in chapter 6 of the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Quoting and Paraphrasing. Use the menu below to learn more about quoting and paraphrasing. How to avoid plagiarism; Should I paraphrase or quote? Founded in 1883 by teachers and scholars, the Modern Language Association (MLA) promotes the study and teaching of language and literature. Quoting drama. Drama is cited using the act, scene and line numbers if the play is written in verse, and the page numbers if the play is a prose play. Writing under English Center is to support and provide resources for all writers at Gallaudet University and beyond. Learn more Quoting poetry in your writing is a bit trickier than quoting prose. Style guides (like MLA) tell us more about quoting poetry, but this handout goes over the basics.