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Citation Guides: MLA

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MLA Citation Guidelines

Most library databases include a citation tool that allows you to generate a citation for the source in different citation styles. Always check automatically-generated citations against the following guides to make sure they are accurate:

Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

These examples will help you integrate your research into your writing:

Formatting Hanging Indents

Citations should be formatted with a hanging indent: the first line of the citation lines up with the left margin, and all following lines are indented one half inch, as in this example:

Adams, Maurianne, editor. Readings for Diversity and Social Justice. Fourth ed., Routledge, 2018.

The following instructions describe how to format hanging indents in Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and some other word processing programs:

Recommended Books

MLA Citation Video

MLA 9th Edition Citation Style

This tutorial provides interactive instruction in creating MLA 9th Edition citations for different types of sources.

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MLA Tutorial

MLA 9th Edition Citation Style

This tutorial The following tutorial provides interactive instruction in creating MLA 9th Edition citations for different types of sources.

If you have trouble accessing this tutorial from off campus, try logging into My.SBCC.edu in a different browser tab, then reloading this page. If that doesn't work, follow the direct link above to open the tutorial outside of this guide.