MLA vs APA – an Ultimate Guide of Citations

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MLA vs APA – An Ultimate Guide Of Citations


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Nowadays, academic becomes an uphill task for the students as writing become a crucial part of their study. Usually, there are three styles in higher education in America: MLA, APA, and Chicago. The main objective of these citations is to maintain a plagiarism-free data within the format structure.


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Here, we will provide the information regarding MLA citation and APA citation format. History and economics assignment use the Chicago style, whereas APA & MLA have some similarities and dissimilarities. Therefore, we have to select the format of both according to the assignment work and the standard of the assignment. This article gives the idea regarding MLA vs. APA with their respective formats.


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Ground rule and history for APA format


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• APA stands for the American Psychology Association, which was established in 1929 for the authors to help them out to generate an original style for citation and quotation. The main motive of it is not to grip the attention of the reader but also provide the information with suitable headlines. • APA is basically use for written records, scientific records, lab papers, and so on. This language has significant importance in the academic also. It is uniformly modifying to ignore racist, impatient languages.


• The report must be of double-spacing between lines in Times New Roman. • The top right side of each page has a numeric val ue with a brief title of that particular work. • The title must be in the center, and the note at the bottom of pages must be double spaced. • List of reference consists of the order of bibl iographies, and the longer record must be compr ised of abstract and much more. Read more

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Some standard of APA


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Ground rule and history for MLA format


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• MLA stands for Modern Language Association, and this is used for quotes book, literary collections, scientific records it is used for the name of the author (the last of the author). • The main difference in MLA is that it has a detailed version for citation in ‘present’ tense form.


• The report must be of double-spacing between l ines in Times New Roman. • The list of bibliographical must be mentioned. • The extra line is not required between MLA citati ons. • Direct citation text has name and page numbers only, whereas indirect have only page numbers Read more....

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Some standard of MLA


The format of APA vs MLA • Whenever you dawn your higher academic studies, you will find out that assignment writing is the most fundamenta l part of your education. Now, you will have to submit i t as per the norms of your institute, and your essay mus t be formatted in a documented style. • APA and MLA, these two are the basic style of writing in a cademic. But there is another style too, and that is Chica go citation. It is mostly adopted by scholars and the pers on who is pursuing the research work professionally. Read more....


For short quotation • APA format:- According to Clugston (2014), literary experiences can become “a personal journey, a quest for meaning” (P.15)

• MLA format:- Wayne Clugston says that literary experiences can become “a personal journey, a quest for meaning” (15).


For a long quotation • APA format:- For quotation 40 words and longer Wayne Clugston (2014) discusses the literature’s connection to humanity Stories are still essential in our lives

• MLA format: For more than four lines of prose of 3 lines of vers e. Wayne Clugston discusses literature’s connection to humanity • Stories are still essential in our lives


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Which format is better?


We already have discussed the difference between with the formats as MLA vs APA format table. Now the question arises that which is a better format? When you are working with literature work, which is an in-text citation, then MLA is suitable for it. Whereas, if you are dealing with a publication like articles related to your academics, then you can prefer APA format. Read more....


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