MLA 9 builds every entry from core elements in a fixed order — author, title of source, title of container, other contributors, version, number, publisher, date, location — and cites in the text with author and page.
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What this style does
The first author is inverted (Smith, John); a second author is written in normal order and joined with and. With three or more authors, MLA uses the first author plus et al.
Article titles go inside double quotation marks; container titles (journal, website) are italicized. Follow the last element with a period.
The journal pattern is vol. 45, no. 3, 2020, pp. 234-51 — MLA abbreviates volume and number labels and shortens the second page number.
URLs are written without http:// or https://, and a DOI is preferred over a URL when one exists.
Books are simply: Author. Title. Publisher, Year. MLA 9 no longer requires the city of publication for most books.
How to use it
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