MLA style
Humanities citation standard
MLA style is a set of formatting and citation guidelines published by the Modern Language Association, used primarily in humanities disciplines like literature, philosophy, and cultural studies.
It specifies how to format papers, cite sources, and compile works-cited lists.
The professor required MLA style for all essays.
Students learn MLA alongside APA and Chicago as the major academic citation systems.
- citationMention of a source
- in-text citationSource acknowledgment within prose
- bibliographyList of cited works
- works citedList of sources used
- parentheticalSet off by punctuation
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