MLA referencing
MLA citations from sources you control.
Common in English, literature and the humanities, where close reading means page-level references matter.
How MLA cites
Sources are cited in the body by author surname and year, in parentheses or narratively.
The reference list is alphabetical by author, so the reader moves from a name in the text to an entry by name.
Editions
Mindgrads renders MLA editions 9 and 8. Briefs often name an edition, and the difference is not cosmetic — check the brief before you start rather than reformatting afterwards.
What Mindgrads does
References come from sources you have added to the project, so a citation points at a document you uploaded rather than a title a model produced. In-text citations and the bibliography are generated from those records and rewritten together when you change style, and both are carried into DOCX and PDF export.
Formatting rules change between editions and institutions publish their own variants. Check the output against your course handbook before submitting — this is a tool for managing references, not a substitute for the requirements you were given.
Ready workspace
Start with the brief. Leave with a review-ready workflow.
Mindgrads keeps planning, source context, writing support, review, and export in one visible path.