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MLA. The Modern Language Association (MLA) style is the leading style of documentation for literary research, as well as academic papers in the humanities field. It follows a specific set of rules for formatting manuscripts, and is considered, along with the APA style, a standardized reference format in college. Compared to the APA style, however, the MLA style focuses on the citation of books, anthologies, literary works, audio-visual material, multimedia, and similar works with much more detail. Also, unlike the APA style, the present tense of verbs is most commonly used in the MLA style. Other MLA standards include:
(see Chapter 5 in MLA Handbook) MLA (Modern Language Association) documentation is a method (or style) of citing your sources; there are other styles such as APA and Chicago. Documentation is important and necessary in order to avoid plagiarism, the theft of someone elseâs words and ideas.