MLA Citation Generator

Paste DOIs and copy references in MLA Handbook, 9th edition.

Paste one or more DOIs and the tool formats them in MLA Handbook, 9th edition using the official Citation Style Language style, with metadata from Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex. You can switch to any other journal style on the same page.

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Questions

What does a journal article look like in MLA style?

For the AlphaFold paper the generator gives: Jumper, John, et al. “Highly Accurate Protein Structure Prediction with AlphaFold.” Nature, vol. 596, no. 7873, July 2021, pp. 583–89, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2.

How do in-text citations work in MLA?

MLA uses the author's surname and, when you quote, the page: (Jumper et al. 585). With three or more authors, use the first surname and et al.

How many authors do I list in MLA?

One author: Surname, First name. Two authors: both names joined by and. Three or more: the first author followed by et al.

How do I cite a DOI in MLA?

Paste the DOI, one per line, and press Continue. The generator reads the publisher's Crossref record and formats it in MLA Handbook, 9th edition. Paste up to 50 DOIs to build a whole reference list.

Can I format for a specific journal instead?

Yes. Press Change above the results and search by journal name or abbreviation. The list covers more than 10,800 journal styles from the Citation Style Language repository used by Zotero and Mendeley.

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