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APA VS MLA:THE KEY DIFFERENCES
Date published January 9, 2020 by Shona McCombes Date updated: February 19, 2020
•APA and MLA are two of the most commonly used citation styles.
•The APA manual (published by the American Psychological
Association) is innetly used in social science and education fields.
•The MLA handbook (published by the Modern Language
Association) is mostly used in humanities fields.
• In both styles, a source citation consists of:
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A brief parenthetical citation in the text.
• A full reference at the end of the paper.
However, citations look slightly different in each style, with
different rules for things like title capitalization, author
names, and placement of the date
There are also some differences in layout and formatting. The
MS Word has templates for a correctly formatted paper in
either style, however, it is still best to learn about it from
memory when no template is available.
• Study the table in the next page.
IN-TEXT CITATIONS IN APA AND MLA
Both MLA and APA use parenthetical citations to cite sources in the text. However,
they include slightly different information.
An APA in-text citation includes the author’s last name and the publication year. If
you’re quoting or paraphrasing a specific passage, you also add a page number.
• An MLA in-text catation includes the author’s last name and a page number.
• The two styles also have different rules about when to shorten citations “at all”
Check the table to compare in-text citations for APA and MLA.
APA MLA
According to new research (Smith, 2019, pp. 11-12). As mentioned before (Smith, 2019, pp. 11-12)
… (See Smith, 2019)
• All citations should be double spaced; Indent after the first line of
each entry.
• Alphabetize by the first word of the entry; entries are not numbered
• Editions of books are noted after the title in the following format:
(2nd ed.) First editions are not listed as such If no edition is listed,
omit the edition section.
•Italics must be used for books and periodical titles.
•CAPITALIZE ONLY the first word of a title, the first
word of a subtitle, and proper nouns in titles of books
and articles, no matter how they appear in a database or
catalog.
•Use the abbreviations p. or pp. only for multi-page
newspaper articles, encyclopedia entries, and chapters or
articles in edited books;
• Do not use the abbreviation p. or pp. (or any other abbreviation) for
magazine and journal articles.
• Dates are in Year, Month Day format (e.g. 1999, December 20)
• If no author is listed, begin with title .
• Date is in parenthesis after the author’s name (or title if no author is
listed)
•Use (n.d.) if no date is given
•Personal Communication includes: private letters,
memos, some electronic communication (i.e. email or
messages from nonarchival discussion groups) personal
interviews, telephone conversations, etc. These types of
communication are not recoverable data and therefore
should not be included on the Reference page. Cite
communication in text only.
WHEN TO CITE
SOURCES:
• 1. Summary
• When you summarize or briefly describe a passage written by
an author, an in-text citation is needed. This is when you read a
text, consider the main points, and provide a shorter version of
what you learned. Summarizing involves putting the main
idea(s) into your own words, including only the main point(s).
Once again, it is necessary to attribute summarized ideas to the
original source. Summaries are significantly shorter than the
original and take a broad overview of the source material.
2. Paraphrase