MLA style

The Modern Language Association's style for the humanities, now in its 9th edition (2021). It uses author–page citations and a Works Cited list.

MLA style is common in literature, languages and other humanities courses. In your text you give the author’s last name and a page number, with no comma; the full details go in a list headed Works Cited.

(Morrison 45)

MLA builds every Works Cited entry from the same set of “core elements” (author, title, container, and so on) in a fixed order, so one pattern covers books, articles, websites and videos. Unlike APA, MLA in-text citations don’t include the year. If your list has only one source, it’s headed “Work Cited.”