MLA Style Guide

Developed by the Modern Language Association and used most often in the humanities, the MLA style is a set of guidelines for writing research papers that meet a certain set of scholarly standards. For a detailed description of these standards, see The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th ed.) available at the Reference Desk and on the shelves at REF LB 2369.G53 2003. Below is a list of MLA-style cited sources taken from that work.

Note: MLA style requires that the list of Works Cited begin on a new page and the pages are numbered, continuing from the text. If your research paper ends on page 10, then your list of Works Cited would be page 11. Begin each entry flush with the left margin and if an entry runs more than one line, indent each subsequent line 5 spaces (1/2 inch). This is called a hanging indent. The entire list should be double spaced throughout and in alphabetical order .