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MLA Citation Style 9th Edition

This guide will help you cite sources in MLA Citation Style 9th Edition.

 

   

Image from an Online Source

Citation Recipe

  1. Author.     Mollerus, Sharon.
  2. Title of source.      "#Flowers."
  3. Title of container,     Flickr,
  4. Other contributors,    
  5. Version,
  6. Number,    
  7. Publishers,    
  8. Publication date,     19 July 2016,
  9. Location.     www.flickr.com/photos/clairity/28413819795/.

Example

In-Text Citation

(Mollerus)

Works Cited

Mollerus, Sharon. "#Flowers." Flickr, 19 July 2016, www.flickr.com/photos/clairity/28413819795/.

Tips

See Building a Works Cited Entry for more information on how to format each part of the citation.

If an element is not present (e.g., other contributors), leave it out.

See the MLA Handbook for more examples.

See RDP Library's Citing & Attributing Works for more information about citing and attributing images.

Image from Artstor

Citation Recipe

  1. Author.     Friedrich, Caspar David.
  2. Title of source.      Two Men Contemplating the Moon.
  3. Title of container,     Artstor,
  4. Other contributors,    
  5. Version,
  6. Number,    
  7. Publishers,    
  8. Publication date,     1825-30,
  9. Location.     https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.18476074

Example

In-Text Citation

(Friedrich)

Works Cited

Friedrich, Caspar David. Two Men Contemplating the Moon. 1825-30. Artstor, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.18476074

Tips

See Building a Works Cited Entry for more information on how to format each part of the citation.

If an element is not present (e.g., other contributors), leave it out.

See the MLA Handbook for more examples.

See RDP Library's Citing & Attributing Works for more information about citing and attributing images.

Image Generated by GenAI

If using an AI-generated image in your work, you will need to create a caption for it, utilizing the guidelines in section 1.7 of the MLA Handbook. Use the description of the prompt, followed by the AI tool, version, and date created.

Example

Fig. 1. “Impressionist painting of a frog on a pond with white flowers” prompt, DALL-E, version 2, OpenAI, 8 Mar. 2023, labs.openai.com/.

Tips

You can use this same information if you choose to create a works-cited-list entry instead of including the full citation in the caption (see MLA Handbook, sec. 1.7).
For more information of citing GenAI content in MLA, see the MLA blog's page on GenAI here.