The Modern Language Association Guide to Citing Sources
In many of your papers and projects, you will quote or paraphrase another person's work. When you do so, you must indicate from whom and from where you are quoting . We use MLA style to achieve this. MLA style involves 2 tasks:
- Placing the author's last name and page number(s) ( if available) of publication from which you are quoting in parentheses in your paper or project after the sentence containing the quote or paraphrase. If the source you are quoting from does not give an authors name, place the title of the source in parentheses.
- Creating a list of works cited at the end of your research paper.
The parenthetical entry must correspond and match the works cited list entry, and vice versa.
Examples of parenthetical references:
(Berg 147).
(Calhoun).
(“What Your Genes Know Affects Them").
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or the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers,7th edition in our library.
Example of Works Cited List
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