Home » MLA Citation » MLA Citation Generator

MLA Citation Generator

The MLA citation generator is a tool that helps students produce MLA citation style bibliography or reference list for books, periodicals and websites. The procedure is fairly simple by just inputting all the necessary details of the reference you used and the generator will arrange it for you using the MLA citing format for different kinds of sources. In this way, you do not need to go through the tedious process of writing and checking if the works cited MLA page conforms to the rules set in the MLA Handbook for Writers and Teachers.

A MLA citation generator is easy to use and would be a convenient tool for students and teachers alike in writing papers. With a generator in hand, the process of citing is made easy.

Below is a review of the relevant MLA citing details you need to input to generate the right entry:

1	Name of Author/s
2	Title
3	Volume.Edition. Series (if indicated)	Title of the Website	Name of the Journal	Name of the Newspaper	Name of the Magazine
4	Place of Publication	Publisher	Volume Number.Issue Number	Place of Publication (for local/unknown newspaper only)	Date of Publication
5	Shortened name of Publisher	Date of Publication			Pages
6	Date of Publication	Medium of Publication	Page Number/s	Edition	Medium of Publication
7	Medium of Publication	Retrieval Date	Medium of Publication	Medium of Publication	——
8	——	URL (optional)		—–	——

Using the MLA Citation Generator

Using the MLA citation generator on this link, http://citationproducer.com/mla-citation/, you will be directed to the MLA citation page (see box below). Then do the following:

Choose the kind of reference you have e.g. book, website, journal, newspaper or magazine.
Enter the detail on the search tab.

MLA Citation Generator Tutorials

Books

Click on “book” to highlight it.

Enter the book title, author or ISBN. Here, we will put “Bernard Shaw” in the search tab.

Then click search. You will then get a search result where you will need to select the actual book that you used like the one here.

After selecting, you will be taken to the edit site or the MLA Book Citation Page.

Here you need to edit the entries, taking note of the MLA citing format. Indicate whether you are citing an entire book or just a chapter or section by clicking the tab opposite “citing”.

Remember to capitalize the first letters of the words in the title and subtitles except for articles, prepositions, conjunctions and the “to” infinitives. After editing and completing the entries, click “enter”.

Note: However, if the book was sourced from the web or read as an electronic book and not in print, click either web or electronic book. You may or may not input the website address, depending on your instructor’s requirements.

Then you will get your MLA book citation, which you will just copy and paste to your works cited MLA page. Do not forget to use a “hanging indent” of 5-7 spaces in the second line when writing the final entry.

MLA Citation Generator for Websites and Periodicals

For other works, you only need to highlight the tab of the type of reference you wish to MLA cite. Every time you finish a search, just click on the MLA citation on the menu bar to get back to the new search tab.

Websites

With electronic sources, you enter the website address of the article. Usually, the title of the article and the website will automatically show, but you may need to edit it following the rules on capitalizing of works cited MLA format. Add the author, publisher, and the date the website was published or created, the medium of publication, and the retrieval date. You do not need to enter the URL unless your instructor explicitly says so, in which case, put the URL in brackets and end the entry with a period.

Blumberg, Michael. “Quantifying the Business Cost of Repair and the Impact on Service Quality.” RL Digital Magazine. Reverse Logistics Association, 2007. Web. 12 May 2012. <URL>.

Journal

Clicking the “Journal” tab, you need to enter the journal’s article title. You will then need to put the title of the journal, making sure every first letter of every word is capitalized. Then put in the name of the author or authors by clicking the “add author” below, then the published year, page numbers, additional info like volume and issue numbers. For online journals, you have the option to include the online address since MLA citation style no longer strictly requires a URL unless necessary.

Hutcheon, Linda, and Michael Hutcheon. “All Concord’s Born of Contraries: Marital Methodologies.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 14.1 (1995): 59-64. Print.

Newspaper

Clicking the “Newspaper” tab, enter the title of the newspaper article. You will then enter the name or title of the newspaper and the city of the newspaper (only for obscure or locally distributed newspapers). Then put in the name of the author, the published date, and additional information like the section, edition, and pages. It is important that the edition be indicated like English or late because different editions contain different content. For sources with no pages, just place n. page or discontinued, just simply add “+” after the first page number.

Secter, Bob. “A Shrine to Kings of the Road.” Chicago Tribune 16 June 2007: 7. Print.

For online newspapers, you need to add the article online address and the name of the website, and the retrieval date.

Magazine

Clicking the “Magazine” tab, enter the magazine’s article title. You then input the name of the magazine, author, published date as well as additional info, if indicated, like volume, issue and page numbers. For online magazines, enter the online address and the website name.

Walsh, Bryan. “Cutting Carbon Means More Than Fancy Bookkeeping.” Time 24 Apr. 2012: 12. Time Science. Web. 10 May 2012 <URL>.

Purpose of the MLA Citation generator

The MLA citation generator is intended to make the sources you used easy to locate by readers and scholars interested in further reading. Omitting the URL is to simplify the citing especially if all the other details are more than sufficient as a reference guide. However, some instructors require an online address for sources that may be difficult to find. This is especially true with online MLA citing where the standard may vary depending on the available information.

If you are a student or a teacher studying liberal Arts or humanities, then writing an academic paper would entail MLA citing. For some scholars, the MLA citation style makes referencing easy especially when URLs are omitted if all the other information will suffice to locate the source. The underlying principle in the works cited MLA format is to make cross-referencing easy and not only to add weight to the paper. Thus, MLA citing still requires specific formulas in order to make a good reference.