Modern Language Association

• Used in English and the humanities (philosophy, literature, history, etc.)
• A guide on how to give credit
• Two parts: an in-text citation you'll put in your presentation and a Works Cited

Example of an MLA Citation for an Article Found on a Website

Example:

Karlamangla, Soumya. “How California’s Elephant Seals Made a Remarkable Recovery.” The New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023, www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/us/how-californias-elephant-seals-made-a-remarkable-recovery.html.

MLA Works Cited Citation CORE ELEMENTS

• Author
• Title of Source
• Title of Container
• Contributors
• Version
• Number
• Publisher
• Publication Date
• Location

You do not always have to use all these elements!

In-Text Citations

This is what you'll put on your slides or in your paper when you quote or share information you learned.

Directions:

• Use the author's last name
• If there is no author, use the title of the article instead

TIP: The trick to correctly formatting in-text citations is that whatever is first in the Works Cited citation is what you use for your in-text citation.

Format

For an article with an author:
“quote” (Author Last Name).

For an article without an author:
“quote” (“Title of Article”).

Examples

In-text citation for an article without an author

In the future people will need to leave their homes due to climate change, “Advocates and international organizations have warned that climate change will lead to mass immigration on an unprecedented scale” ("Immigrants and Immigration")

In-text citation for an article with an author

The elephant seal population has been growing, “after laws were enacted in Mexico and the United States banning hunting of elephant seals, that colony… was able to keep reproducing, and the population rebounded” (Karlamangla).