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MLA CITATION - NEW 7TH EDITION

What is the MLA Format?
The Modern Language Association (MLA) is an organization that was created to develop guidelines on everything language and literature related. They have guidelines on proper grammar usage and research paper layouts. In addition, they have English and foreign language committees, numerous books and journal publications, and an annual conference.

What are citations?
The Modern Language Association is responsible for creating standards and guidelines on how to properly cite sources to prevent plagiarism. Their style is most often used when writing papers and citing sources in the liberal arts and humanities fields. Liberal arts is a broad term used to describe a range of subjects including the humanities, formal sciences such as mathematics and statistics, natural sciences such as biology and astronomy, and social science such as geography, economics, history, and others. The humanities specifically focuses on subjects related to languages, art, philosophy, religion, music, theater, literature, and ethics.

Believe it or not, there are thousands of other types of citation styles. While this citation style is most often used for the liberal arts and humanities fields, many other subjects, professors, and schools prefer citations and papers to be styled in MLA format.

Bib Me
The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the easiest way to build a works cited page. And it's free.

  • Search for a book, article, website, or film, or enter the information yourself.

  • Add it to your bibliography.

  • Download your bibliography in either the MLA, APA, Chicago, or Turabian formats and include it in your paper.

Easy Bib
The free automatic bibliography and citation maker.

Citation Machine
Citation Machine helps students and professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources.

Knight Cite
Citing a basic book in MLA format.

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