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MLA and APA
Styles of Documentation
MLA APA
Governing Body Modern Language Association American Psychological
Association
Users Humanities Social Sciences
aka Author-Work Author-Date
Bibliographic list Works Cited References
Order of entries in
bibliographic list
Alphabetical by author, then
alphabetical by work
Alphabetical by author, then
chronological by work
Names Last, First, Middle Initial Last, First Initial, Middle Initial
Dates Not used in-text Prominent in-text
Article Titles In quotation marks Not in quotation marks
Capitalization All Major Words Capitalized First words only capitalized
Notes (Foot or End) Not used for references Not used for references
In-text parenthesis
(Name space page number)
(Levin 13)
(Name comma year comma p.#)
(Levin, 1982, p. 13)
And Spelled out Ampersand except running text
Secondary citation ( qtd. in Levin 13) (cited in Levin, 1982, p. 13)
Publisher's names Many abbreviated Rarely Abbreviated
Trailing punctuation Not underlined Underlined
Multiple works by same
author
Works alphabetical, three hyphens
and a period for name
Works chronological, name
repeated for each entry
Et al Four or more authors Six or more authors
Tense of reporting Present: Smith claims . . . Past: Smith claimed . . .
APA—Basic Format
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also
for subtitle. Location: Publisher.
Note: For "Location," you should always list the city and the state using the two letter postal abbreviation without periods (New York, NY).
Example:
Calfee, R. C., & Valencia, R. R. (1991). APA guide to preparing
manuscripts for journal publication. Washington, DC: American
Psychological Association.
Book—MLA Binns, Tristan Boyer. The Bald Eagle. Chicago: Rourke, 2001. Print.
Book—APA Binns, T. B. (2001). The bald eagle. Chicago, Il: Rourke Publishers.
Nonperiodical Web Document, Web Page, or Report
List as much of the following information as possible (you sometimes have to hunt around to find the information; don't be lazy. If there is a page like http://www.somesite.com/somepage.htm, and somepage.htm doesn't have the information you're looking for, move up the URL to http://www.somesite.com/):
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of document.
Retrieved from http://Web address
NOTE: When an Internet document is more than one Web page, provide a URL that links to the home page or entry page for the document. Also, if there isn't a date available for the document use (n.d.) for no date.
Web Page—MLA Green, Joshua. “The Rove Presidency.” The Atlantic.com. Atlantic Monthly Group, Sept. 2007. Web.
15 May 2008.
Web Page—APA Green, J. (2007, September). The Rove presidency. The Atlantic.com. Retrieved from
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/09/the-rove-presidency/6132/.