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Citing and referencing

Everything you need to know about referencing with links to guides and support.

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What is MLA Style?

MLA stands for Modern Language Association; it is a style of documentation widely used in the humanities’ disciplines, especially in writing on language and literature as well as history and philosophy. Like any style format, it is proposed to establish and maintain consistency and quality in research for users to consult the resources used.

MLA style features brief in-text citations in the text, referring to an alphabetical list of works cited that appears at the end of the work. To mention that for every in-text citation, there should be a corresponding reference in the “Work Cited” page and vice versa. 


MLA 9th edition Handbook