How to Do Citing in the MLA Format

The Modern Language Association, or MLA, has a citation style that is used by a variety of academic institutions. Citing your sources in a uniform manner makes it easier for readers to verify your information, thus making your work more credible.

Instructions

    • 1

      After each citation throughout your essay, type the author's name and the page number where you found the information within parentheses. For example, if the information you cite in your essay was found on page 55 in a book by Greg White, you would write (White 55). You do not use a comma between the author's name and the page number.

    • 2

      Leave the author's name out of the citation if you mentioned his name in the actual writing of your paper. So, you could write "Greg White wrote that human resources management is not an easy subject (55)."

    • 3

      Collect all of the resources you used and put them in a Works Cited list at the end of your essay.

    • 4

      Arrange your research material alphabetically by the author's last name or by the title if there is no author.

    • 5

      Write the author's last name first. So, you would start your citation with "White, Greg."

    • 6

      Write the title of the book in italics.

    • 7

      Write the city where the book was published, a colon, the publisher's name, a comma and the year it was published.

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