Peer review is important not only because your professors will be requiring it of you, but also because they represent the most scholarly, most authoritative information within the different disciplines
MLA is commonly used in the English discipline. There is a new 8th edition to MLA with many important changes. Make sure you are using a current version. There are copies available at the reference desk.
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University provides detailed guidelines and instruction for formatting MLA style research papers and citations. Here are a couple of important links for formatting your paper, identifying the basic parts of a citation, and using abbreviations in citations:
