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APA + MLA CITATION GUIDE

MLA Handbook - Ninth Edition by The Modern Language Association of America
ISBN: 9781603293518
Publication Date: 2021-04-06
The Library has a copy of this manual on reserve for students and tutors.

Please contact the NCC librarian or drop in to see a writing tutor for help with using APA + MLA styles to cite your sources.

MLA Formatting & Style Guide (OWL)
Here is the complete guide to MLA from Purdue University OWL.
MLA 9th Edition changes
Introduction to Formatting Your Research Project
This chapter from the MLA guide explains margins, text size, headers and more.

Sample MLA-style Citations

All source types

Austin Community College library's quick guide (pdf)
This 8-page guide has examples of MLA works cited and in-text citations. MLA 9th Edition

Websites

Example of website with an author:

Lundman, Susan. "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow, www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html.

According to Purdue OWL:

Put individual webpage name in quotation marks.
The name of the parent website, the "container," should follow in italics.
Include the url but leave off "http://"
For websites without an author, start with the website name. See more.
TED Talks and other videos can also be cited this way.