Content Frame
Skip Breadcrumb Navigation
Home  arrow Documentation in the Disciplines  arrow Chapter 47: Using MLA Documentation and Format  arrow MLA Style

MLA Style

English, foreign languages, and some other humanities use the documentation style and document format of the Modern Language Association, detailed in the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed. (2003). The MLA provides occasional updates and a short list of FAQs at http://www.mla.org.

MLA in-text citations
Sample MLA in-text citations
MLA works cited
Sample MLA works-cited entries

MLA in-text citations

In-text citations of sources have two requirements:

Back to top

Sample MLA in-text citations

1. Author not named in your text
2. Author named in your text
3. A work with two or three authors
4. A work with more than three authors
5. A work with numbered paragraphs or screens instead of pages
6. An entire work or a work with no page or other reference numbers
7. A multivolume work
8. A work by an author of two or more cited works
9. An anonymous work
10. A government publication or a work with a corporate author
11. An indirect source
12. A literary work
13. The Bible
14. An electronic source
15. Two or more works in the same citation

Back to top

MLA works cited

A list of works cited should include all of the sources you quoted, paraphrased, or summarized in your paper. Follow this format for the list of works cited:

Back to top

Sample MLA works-cited entries

Select the type of resource to review examples of MLA works-cited entries.

Books (models 1-21)
Periodicals (models 22-30)
Electronic resources (models 31-51)
Other sources (models 52-63)

Back to top






Pearson Copyright © 1995 - 2010 Pearson Education . All rights reserved. Pearson Longman is an imprint of Pearson .
Legal Notice | Privacy Policy | Permissions

Return to the Top of this Page