Citation Style Guides: MLA

The Modern Language Association, the authority on research and writing, takes a fresh look at documenting sources in the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook. Works are published today in a dizzying range of formats. A book, for example, may be read in print, online, or as an e-book―or perhaps listened to in an audio version. On the Web, modes of publication are regularly invented, combined, and modified. Previous editions of the MLA Handbook provided separate instructions for each format, and additional instructions were required for new formats. In this groundbreaking new edition of its best-selling handbook, MLA recommends instead one universal set of guidelines, which writers can apply to any type of source.
Copies of the MLA Handbook are available at the Reference Desk for in-library use.