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MLA (Modern Language Association) style is commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This PowerPoint offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in- text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.
The Modern Language Association developed MLA citation style to help you document your sources in a research paper or other project. By employing MLA citation style, you will give proper credit to authors whose ideas or words you are using in your own work. In a research paper, you will use two types of MLA citation. In-text citations are brief and will appear among the sentences you write in your paper. Reference citations are longer and will appear at the end of your paper, in your List of Works Cited. Letâs say you have written this sentence in your paper: