These questions are about MLA format. Is it true of false statement?

Question

1. The side margins of a MLA style paper should measure one-half inch.
2. Pagination includes the writer of the paper's last name and the number of the page.
3. In most cases, when the author of the scholarly source is in the citing, the parenthetical reference should only contain a page number.

4. The mark of punctuation that most often ends the Works Cited entry is a period.

5. Anything on the internet constitutes a scholarly source.

Answer 1

Hello Aevenir,

The answer to this three-part question is FALSE. Reasons:

1) The side margins of a MLA paper should measure one whole inch.

2) Pagination includes the number of the page only (inclusion of the author's last name is optional)

3) The parenthetical reference must include the author's name along with the page number, even if the author is the writer of the scholarly source itself.

*Incidentally, I am an author of three going on four published nonfiction books, filled with source citations and pagination, so this is very familiar literary citational territory to me. :)

Cheers!