HCC Home Library Understanding the Library MLA Style Honolulu Community College Library MLA Citation Examples written by HCC Library The Modern Language Association (MLA) Style is widely used for identifying research sources. In MLA style you briefly credit sources with parenthetical citations in the text of your paper, and give the complete description of each source in your Works Cited list. The Works Cited list, or Bibliography, is a list of all the sources used in your paper, arranged alphabetically by author's last name, or when there is no author, by the first word of the title (except A, An or The - For example: In the text of your paper:
- Results of studies done by Hawaii's Ocean Mammal Institute indicated that humpback whales were affected by the noise of marine engines (Calvez 41). or, According to Leigh Calvez, studies by the Ocean Mammal Institute indicated that Hawaiian humpback whales were affected by the noise of marine engines (41).
- In your Works Cited list:
- Calvez, Leigh. "By the Time We Have Proof." Ocean Realm Spring 2000: 41-47.
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