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Cite MLA Style 9

How to cite according to the 9th edition of the Modern Language Association.

Grab a Citation

The easiest way to get a citation is to grab one from the databases where you got your article, book, eBook or media. For other items you can use a free citation generator to build your citation. 

  1. Every AtoZ Food America page has a citation button at the bottom of the navigation menu. Click on the citation button.
  2. Highlight the style you want and copy. 

Cite


Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, move World Trade Press. after AtoZ Food America,
  2. Remove https:/ and add www.atozfoodamerica.com/ to the front of the URL.
  3. Delete the date. If the date of access is required by your instructor, you can move it to the end of the citation and add Accessed in front of the date. 
  4. Create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  5. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  6. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.


It Should Look Like

"Texas Cuisine Overview." AtoZ Food America, World Trade Press.

www.atozfoodamerica.com/texas/cuisine-overview.html. 

Accessed 15 July 2023.

Academic Video Online provides citations in APA, Chicago and MLA styles that you can grab from the database. Here's how:

  1. On any video page select Cite below the video.
  2. Choose your preferred citation format from the pull down menu.
  3. Copy the citation.


Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.
  4. Italicize Alexander Street.


It Should Look Like

"Disinformation Is Real??" , directed by Cullen Hoback. , produced by Alina Solodnikova, 
 
Cullen Hoback, and Hyrax Films. , Ro*Co Films, 2021. Alexander Street,
 
https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/disinformation-is-real.

On the eBook page, select the Citations tab to grab your citation in APA, Chicago, MLA, or IEEE format. 

Cite


Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.
  4. Remove the extra URL from the citation,  https://e-readtx.biblioboard.com,


It Should Look Like This on Your Reference List

McKenzie, Phyllis. The Mexican Texans. Texas A&M University Press, 2004. 

https://e-readtx.biblioboard.com/content/b3caaa95-2a7d-42c6-9730-6662b26570d2.

In Text Citations

Parenthetical: (McKenzie, 2004)

Narrative: McKenzie (2004)

  1. Every Britannica article has a citation icon at the top of the page. Click on the citation icon and MLA will come up by default.
  2. Grab your citation.


Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.
  4. Remove the Accessed date from the end of the citation. 


It Should Look Like

"Google." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 11 May. 2020. 

academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Google/471099.

Access citations on the upper right of the page above the entry using the Citation option. 


 


Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.
  4. Remove the Accessed date from the end of the citation. 


It Should Look Like

Bruun, Christer. "Rome." Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World: A Companion to Ancient History,

Andrew Erskine, Wiley, 1st edition, 2009. Credo Reference, https://comlib.idm.oclc.org/login?

url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/wileycanh/rome/0?institutionId=5089. 

In CQ Researcher, on every article page is an article toolbar. On a large screen it will be near the top of the page. On a a small screen look for Tools on the bottom of your screen. 

  1. To grab your citation, select Cite from the Tool bar. 
  2. By default, the style is APA style. Change your citation format to MLA. 
  3. Copy your citation to the clipboard so you can paste it in your paper. 

Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.
  4. Change CQ Researcher to italics. 
  5. Delete Thousand Oaks, California:
  6. Change CQ Press to italics
  7. Delete , 2024 5 Jul 2024, doi:

It Should Look Like

Field, Anne. "American Capitalism". CQ Researcher, 21 Jun 2024.

CQ Press. https://doi.org/10.4135/cqresrre20240621

To gab a citation from Ebook Central:

  1. On the book detail page, select Cite Book.
  2. The citation window will pop up; by default MLA is selected.

Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.

It Should Look Like MLA

Halpern, Paul. Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat : How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to

Create a Unified Theory of Physics, Basic Books, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central,

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/com-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1948796.

All EBSCO databases help you get citations. Here's how:

  1. On the article page, select the quotes option. 
  2. Under Select style, use the pull down menu to select MLA. 
  3. Select Copy to clipboard to grab the citation. 
  4. Paste into your works cites page.

Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to match the font of your paper.

Articles Should Look Like

Milo, Razel Bacuetes. “Diabetes Innovations and Access to Care.” American Nurse Journal,

vol. 19, no. 5, May 2024, pp. 19–22. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.51256/ANJ052419.

EBSCO has a great citation tool you can use to cite your eBooks. Here's how:

  1. On the eBook page, select the quotes option. 
  2. Under Select style, use the pull down menu to select MLA. 
  3. Select Copy to clipboard to grab the citation. 
  4. Paste into your references page.

Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to match the font of your paper.

eBooks Should Look Like

Peter Klimczak, and Christer Petersen. AI - Limits and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence.

transcript Verlag, 2023. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=

3880175b-dcfb-3a32-9203-e8d5bc316d91.

Access citations on any video page by clicking on Citation below the video. Citations are provided in APA, Chicago, Harvard and MLA styles.

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Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.
  4. Italicize Films Media Group.
  5. Remove the Accessed date from the end of the citation. 


It Should Look Like

 “A Necessary War (December 1941–December 1942).” Films Media Group,
 
2007,  fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=95702&xtid=44292.

Every Gale article has a citation available. Look in the upper right corner of the article page and select Cite, MLA will come up by default. 

 

Change It Tips

 

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.
  4. Remove the Accessed date from the end of the citation. 

It Should Look Like

Berman, Lauren. “Dragons and Serpents in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series: Are They Evil?”

Mythlore, vol. 27, no. 1-2, 2008, p. 45. Gale, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=gale|a188065412

&v=2.1&u =txshracd2496&it=r&p=gls&sw=w&asid=cbf27d207f8181c5cbcfb291b5464c27

Good news! Google scholar provides citations for articles from the search result list ((currently MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard or Vancouver).

To grab a citation click on the Cite link below a search result and select from the available citation styles.

As with any resource that provides citations, always double check to make sure formatting is correct. See formatting tips below.

Change it Tips MLA

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.

It Should look Like MLA

Efron, Bradley, and Robert Tibshirani. "Bootstrap  methods for standard errors, confidence intervals,

and other measures of statistical accuracy." Statistical Science (1986): 54-75.

American History Online, Ancient and Medieval History Online, Ancient and Medieval History Online all use the same interface and citations can be obtained in the same way in each.

At the top of every article is a citation icon in that you can click on to get your MLA style citation. 

Cite MLA


Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.
  4. Remove the Accessed date from the end of the citation. 


It Should Look Like

Burg, David F. “Declaring Independence: 1776.” American Revolution, Updated Edition, Facts On File, 2007. 

American History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=95702&itemid=WE52&articleId=203427. 

At the top of every Issues & Controversies article is a cite option. Click on it and select Citation to get a Chicago or MLA style citation, MLA is the default.


Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.
  4. Remove the Accessed date from the end of the citation. 


It Should Look Like

“Fake News.” Issues & Controversies, Infobase, 4 Nov. 2020,

icof.infobase.com/articles/QXJ0aWNsZVRleHQ6MTY0NTA=. Accessed 29 June 2022.

Every JSTOR article has a citation available. Look in the upper right corner of the article page and select Cite, then grab the MLA style citation. 

JSTOR Cite

Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.
  4. Remove the Accessed date from the end of the citation. 

It Should Look Like

Craig, Hugh. “Shakespeare’s Vocabulary: Myth and Reality.” 

Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 1, 2011, pp. 53–74. JSTOR,

http://www.jstor.org/stable/23025617. 

O'Reilly for Higher Education does not provide citations that you can grab. But You can grab a citation from OneSearch. Here's how: 

  1. Go to OneSearch and choose the Advanced search option. 
  2. Change the Any field option to Title.
  3. Type in or paste the title of your item.
  4. Click/tap on your item from the Result list.
 Search OneSearch

5. Select CITATION.
6. Choose your preferred citation format.
7. Copy the citation.

Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.
  4. At the end of your citation add O'Reilly for Higher Education, and the URL that you grab from your browser address bar from OReilly. 

It Should Look Like

Mueller, John, and Luca Massaron. Artificial Intelligence. Second edition.,
For Dummies, 2022. O'Reilly for Higher Education,
https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/artificial-intelligence-for/9781119796763/.
 

OneSearch is best used for citing items like books and DVDs that are physically in the library. If you are using an article, eBook or other item from a databases it's best to grab the citation from the database

  1. On the result list, click on the quote icon to launch the pop up citation window.
  2. Select MLA.
  3. Select COPY THE CITATION  TO CLIPBOARD.
  4. Paste into your paper. See the change it tips, below, to make it just right.

Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.
  4. Italicize the title. 
  5. Delete place of publication. 

It Should Look Like

Brooks, Max. World War Z : an Oral History of the Zombie War. 1st ed.,

Crown, 2006

ProQuest provides citations in APA, Chicago, MLA and more styles that you can grab from the database. Here's how:

  1. Click Cite on the right side of your article page.
  2. If APA comes up in the pop up window, click on the pull down menu and select MLA.
  3. Copy the citation and paste it into your paper. See the change it tips, below, to make it just right.

MLA 9


Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.


It Should Look Like

Corthell, Ronald. "John Donne's Articulations of the Feminine." JEGP.Journal of English and

Germanic Philology, vol. 100, no. 2, 2001, pp. 280-282. ProQuest,

https://comlib.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/

john-donnes-articulations-feminine/docview/217911606/se-2.

At the top of every article is a article is a cite option. Click on it to get your MLA style citation.


Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.
  4. Remove the Accessed date from the end of the citation. 


It Should Look Like

Bozzone, Donna M., and Susan Whittemore. “Anatomy of the Circulatory System.” The Circulatory System,

Facts On File, 2009. Science Online, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=95702&itemid=WE40&articleId=368481.