MLA 9 Citation Generator
The default for high school and college English, literature, and humanities papers. Paste a link, DOI, ISBN, or arXiv ID — get a MLA citation in one click.
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The default for high school and college English, literature, and humanities papers.
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Paste a link, DOI, ISBN, or arXiv ID above — we'll detect the type and fetch the rest.
About MLA 9 format
MLA 9th edition (Modern Language Association) is used in literature, English composition, and most humanities courses in U.S. high schools and colleges. It uses author-page in-text citations and a Works Cited list at the end of the paper.
When to use MLA
MLA is the standard in Literature, English, humanities, language studies, cultural studies. If your syllabus, professor, or target journal lists MLA as the required style, this tool produces entries you can paste directly into your reference list with no further formatting needed.
How the MLA 9 citation generator works
- Paste a source. A URL, DOI, ISBN, or arXiv ID — the tool detects the type and fetches title, author, year, and other metadata from Crossref, OpenLibrary, or arXiv.
- Edit any field. Auto-filled metadata can be wrong. Switch to manual entry to fix the author order, add a missing publisher, or correct a date.
- Copy your MLA citation. Click Copy and paste it into Word, Google Docs, or LaTeX. The plain-text version preserves italics through Unicode-friendly formatting that pastes cleanly into any editor.
- Build a bibliography. Save multiple sources, and the tool assembles them — alphabetized for MLA, which sorts alphabetically by author surname.