The
MLA (Modern Language Association) Style (9th edition) is used in the humanities area. The free
companion site to the
MLA Handbook is now available. It gives guidance on formatting, plagiarism and academic dishonesty, and their ‘work cited: a quick guide’ section nicely illustrates visually what needs to be cited. If you are interested in an online citation generator, BibGuru is linked below.
Purdue Owl also has extensive resources explaining some of the new rules. Some professors may ask you to submit your papers to
Turnitin, a plagiarism checking database.
You must have
both the in-text citations and the Works Cited page which is a list of all sources you used for your paper.