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MLA Citation Style Guide

Overview of using MLA 8th ed. to format citations.

What is MLA

Welcome to the MLA resource page. The Modern Language Association style of writing is commonly used for formatting papers in the liberal arts or humanities fields. The tabs on the left provide details for citing specific resource types.

Examples in this guide are based on the MLA Handbook 8th edition.

"The MLA Style Center." The MLA Style Center,  style.mla.org. Accessed 19 July 2017.

The library will be updating this page for the new MLA Handbook, 9th edition released this past spring in the upcoming weeks.