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MLA Citation Generator (9th Edition)

Build MLA 9th edition Works Cited entries and parenthetical citations.

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Write people as “Last, First Middle”. Write organisations as their full name.

MLA 9th reference

Walker, Matthew P., and Robert Stickgold. “Sleep, memory, and plasticity.” Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 57, 2006, pp. 139–166, doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.56.091103.070307.

In-text citation

(Walker and Stickgold)

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Check the result against your instructor’s or publisher’s guidance — titles keep the capitalisation you type, and some styles want sentence case.

The calculation happens instantly in your browser. The numbers you enter are not sent to our servers or saved.

How to use the MLA Citation Generator

  1. Choose the source type — book, journal article, web page, newspaper or chapter.
  2. Fill in the authors, title and publication details.
  3. Copy the reference (with italics) and the in-text citation, or add it to your reference list.

What does this tool do?

MLA style is common in literature, languages and the humanities. Entries follow the MLA core elements — author, title, container, other contributors, version, number, publisher, date and location — with full first names and “et al.” for three or more authors.

In-text citations follow the MLA pattern: (Author page), with no comma and no “p.”. Saved sources stay in your browser only; nothing is uploaded.

Why use it?

  • Books, articles, web pages, newspapers and chapters.
  • Copies with italics for Word and Google Docs.
  • Builds a full reference list across tools.

Example

Walker, Matthew P., and Robert Stickgold. “Sleep, Memory, and Plasticity.” Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 57, 2006, pp. 139–166.

Accuracy and limits

  • Always check against your instructor's or publisher's guidelines — local variations of each style are common, and titles keep the capitalisation you type.

Privacy

The calculation happens instantly in your browser. The numbers you enter are not sent to our servers or saved. There's no account to create and nothing to install.

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