MLA stands for Modern Languages Association. The MLA Style Manual is often used for formatting and citing references when writing papers in the liberal arts and humanities.
This website provides writing help including detailed information about using MLA to format and to write a research paper. Lots of examples using different types of scholarly materials are provided.
The Modern Language Association (MLA) publishes the style guide MLA Handbook. The tutorial in this box provides some information about citations or references using MLA style. Click anywhere on the image to begin. This tutorial will not work in Internet Explorer.