Creating Citations in MLA

Basic Guidelines

Put the different elements of your citation in the order below, being sure to include the punctuation as shown.

Author.
Title of Source.
Title of Container,
Other Contributors,
Version,
Number,
Publisher,
Publication Date,
Location.

Notice that only 1, 2, and 9 have a period after them.

Citation Generators

Please be aware that due to their use of targeted advertising, the citation generators EasyBib and Citation Machine are not approved for use in D20.

If using a resource from one of our databases remember that the citation will either be available at the bottom of the article, or by finding the word CITE on the page, clicking on it, and copying the MLA citation.

Should you need to rely on a citation generator in order to cite a website in MLA format, ZoteroBib is approved for use in D20.

If you are use a citation generator, please remember to double-check the citation that gets generated to make sure it is formatted correctly. The use of a generator does not format citations correctly 100% of the time.