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MLA Writing Format

Most of the style guidelines of the Modern Language Association (MLA) are in two books: the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, meant mainly for undergraduates and high school students, and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, for graduate students, scholars, and professional writers. The MLA format example Word documents we provide here follow the MLA Style Manual, but most graduate schools and publishers have their own style guides as well. Whenever a rule conflicts, follow your own institution’s rule.

MLA Citations

The format of the MLA citations list itself is straightforward, but the MLA format demands many different ways to cite references from different source types. Our MLA format example illustrates most of those ways.

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