Why do we cite? 

•Avoid plagiarism…intentional OR unintentional, always give credit to original author/creator

•Leave “Trail of breadcrumbs” trail to find information for yourself and the audience

•Be part of a scholarly conversation- trace the lineage of ideas

What do we cite?

•Information that isn’t common knowledge or general facts to you/your audience

•Direct Quotations

•Summarizing or Paraphrasing ideas from source

• General MLA format guide
• Book or Chapter
• Journal Articles 
• Periodicals- Newspapers, magazines
• Movies- youtube, streaming platform, DVD

In text citations for films:

If you are quoting a specific scene in a movie or another audiovisual time-based work make sure to include a time or time range, separating hours, minutes and seconds, with colons, to indicate where the quote came from within the film. This is like including a page number to guide your audience to the portion of the work.  

​EXAMPLE: (Casablanca 00:34:30-00:36:03)​