MLA Citation Generator
Fill in the fields matching your source (book, article, or website) to automatically generate a bibliographic reference formatted in MLA 9 style, ready to insert into your works cited list.
How it works
MLA (Modern Language Association), 9th edition, structures each reference around a "container" (the source's host medium: a journal, a website, a publisher) and places the source title in quotation marks for an article or italics for a book. This generator assembles the entered fields in the order and punctuation expected by the style.
What is the difference between MLA and APA?
MLA emphasizes the author and title at the beginning of the reference and does not require a systematic access date for print sources, while APA places the year right after the author, in parentheses. Choosing one style generally depends on the discipline (MLA is common in the humanities, APA in the social sciences).
Do I always need to include an access date?
For a web source, MLA recommends an access date when the page has no clear publication date or may change; this field remains optional if the source is stable and dated.
The MLA citation is built directly on your device: the references you enter are never sent to a server.