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Sample Citation in a Bibliography: MLA

James, Marlon. A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel. 1st edition. New York: Riverhead Books, 2015. Print.

MLA Handbook Plus This link opens in a new window
This guide is a quick introduction to the Modern Language Association 9th edition citation style. Be sure to consult the MLA Handbook or the online MLA Style Center for detailed standards and procedures.

Citation Examples from the MLA Style Manual
Use the examples in the 9th edition of the MLA Style Manual as a reference for creating bibliographies and lists of works cited. You can easily move into the rest of the style manual from here for other writing guidelines.
Sample Papers in MLA Style
Student essays were chosen by a selection committee and originally published in Writing with MLA Style. Annotations have been added—with reference to section numbers in the MLA Handbook—to illustrate various points of MLA style. All papers show examples of formatting a research paper and of works-cited lists, in-text citations, and quotations from sources. Additional key features of each paper are listed.

The MLA Style Center
The MLA Style Center offers free online support to users of the MLA Handbook and anyone interested in editing, writing, and research.

The Writing Center at Purdue University has created the most widely used, comprehensive guides to citation available.