Enclose titles of articles, essays, poems, and short stories that are part of a source in quotations marks. If there are several titles that start with the same word, use enough of the title to distinguish between them. If the title starts with the articles, A, AN, or THE, include the next word. Pay careful attention to the punctuation of the examples and type exactly what each example indicates. In order to avoid plagiarism, you must document the sources of facts, ideas, quotes and paraphrases.
Plagiarism is the academic equivalent of theft.
Use quotation marks to indicate a direct quotation Use parenthetical documentation to indicate the source of facts or ideas Provide a works cited page to indicate fully the sources of the facts or ideas Parenthetical Documentation MLA recommends parenthetical documentation instead of footnoting. Parenthetical documentation is a brief reference in the paper directly after the sentence or paragraph in which you quote from the book or use its ideas. Cited takes the place of a footnote. When the author is mentioned in the sentence only put the page number in the parentheses. Place the period after the parentheses, not within the quotation marks.