• MLA (Modern Language Association)

    • MLA (Modern Language Association)

      The MLA style uses author-page references in the text and then provides more extensive information about the references in the bibliography at the end of the text. The bibliography is headed “Works Cited” if all references are works cited in the text itself, or “Works Consulted” if the reference list also includes works that have been used as background material but which are not cited in the text.

      Here is an example of what an MLA citation looks like in the text:

      In order to succeed as a politician, Roosevelt changed his image and became known as the “Cowboy from the Dakotas” (Bederman 170-71).

      The corresponding entry in the bibliography looks like this:

      Bederman, Gail. Manliness & Civilization: A Cutural History of Gender and Race in the United States 1880-1917. Chicago: The U. of Chicago P., 1995.

       

       

    • Bibliography entry

      • MLA bibliography entry

        MLA bibliography entries look like this.

        Journal:

        Sievens, Mary Beth. “Female Consumerism and Household Authority in Early National New England” in Early American Studies (Fall 2006), 353-71.

        Book:

        McGill, Meredith. American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853. Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2003.

    • In-text citation

      • MLA reference

        Here is some information about what an in-text reference using the MLA style looks like.

        Reference when there is just one work by that author used in the text:

        The flight from women and femininity is important for the establishing of a masculine self (Kimmel 115).

        or

        According to Kimmel, the flight from women and femininity is important for the establishing of a masculine self (115).

        If more than one work by the same author is used, the reference looks like this:

        The flight from women and femininity is important for the establishing of a masculine self (Kimmel, “Born to Run” 115).

        or

        According to Kimmel, the flight from women and femininity is important for the establishing of a masculine self (“Born to Run” 115).