MLA Formatting and Citation Guide

At Carondelet we use the Modern Language Association 9th Edition Guide to Citing Sources.

In many of your papers and projects, you will quote or paraphrase another person's work. When you do so, you must indicate from whom and from where you are quoting . We use MLA style to achieve this. MLA style involves 2 tasks:

1. Placing the author's last name and page number(s) (if available) of publication from which you are quoting in parentheses in your paper or project after the sentence containing the quote or paraphrase. If the source you are quoting from does not give an author's name, place the title of the source in parentheses.

2. Creating a list of works cited at the end of your research paper.

See Examples Below:

Example of  Works Cited:

• Works Cited Example

• Here is the practice template from the MLA Style Center to help you with citing: https://style.mla.org/files/2016/04/practice-template.pdf

• Use the Works Cited: A Quick Guide from MLA Style Center for a brief lesson on how to build a citation.

• For great citation examples and explanations, please visit this site from Clark Library at the University of Portland.

• For photo citing/attribution look at the best practices from Creative Commons. 

For further details, consult the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 9th edition in our library or see Ms. Koski.

There are many online citation makers. Some are better than others - and almost all will need to be checked when citing websites or online sources using a URL.