Citation Generation

MLA 8 Citations, Simplified. Created by Joshua K.

Format and Example:

Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. City of Publication, Publisher, Publication Date.

Smith, John. The Great Book. New York, Penguin Books, 2020.

Description: For a book with a single author.

Details:

Only use if book published before 1900, publisher has offices in multiple countries, or publisher is unknown outside North America.

About

Have you ever had to cite a source for a paper or essay in MLA format and had no idea how to do it? Yeah, me too. This super simple tool is designed to generate a citation by just filling in the fields. Read more about MLA 8 below.

MLA (Modern Language Association) 8 citation format is the 8th edition of the MLA citation style. It is widely used in academia and other fields. The following citation works for almost all types of sources, but there are specific changes for some types as you can generate above.

Author. Title. Title of container (self contained if book), Other contributors (translators or editors), Version (edition), Number (vol. and/or no.), Publisher, Publication Date, Location (pages, paragraphs URL or DOI). 2nd container's title, Other contributors, Version, Number, Publisher, Publication date, Location, Date of Access (if applicable).

This format can be adapted to almost any type of source, as you can generate at the top.