MLA Referencing
It is Modern Language Association referencing style and is mostly used in the reports related to humanities.
Referencing a Book
- Author of text in the format of surname and forename followed by full stop
- Title of text underlined followed by a full stop
- Place of publication followed by a colon
- Publisher followed by a comma
- Year of publication
Taylor, John. Modern Referencing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Referencing a Journal
- Author of article in the format of surname and forename followed by full stop
- Name of article in quotation marks followed by a full stop
- Name of journal underlined
- Volume/Issue number followed by a full stop
- Date of publication in brackets followed by a colon
- Page numbers followed by a full stop
Taylor, John. Using MLA. Referencing Today 2. (August 2008): 23-37.
Referencing an electronic source
- Author of article in the format of surname and forename followed by full stop
- Name of article in quotation marks followed by a full stop
- Name of website underlined followed by a full stop
- Date of publication on website followed by a full stop
- Date accessed
- Website URL
Taylor, John. Using MLA. Referencing Online. 2008. Accessed 6 August 2008
Citation in MLA is done in similar manner to Harvard referencing.
