Free MLA Citation Generator
Create accurate MLA 9th edition citations in seconds. Search by URL, title, ISBN, or DOI.
MLA 9th Edition
Create accurate MLA 9th edition citations in seconds. Search by URL, title, ISBN, or DOI.
An MLA citation generator creates properly formatted references following the Modern Language Association guidelines. Instead of manually arranging author names, titles, publishers, and dates, you search for your source and get a ready-to-copy Works Cited entry and in-text citation in seconds.
Our free tool follows the latest MLA Handbook (9th edition), the standard used across high schools and universities for humanities, literature, and language courses. Every citation includes a confidence score so you know exactly which fields were verified automatically and which ones need a second look.
Select website, book, journal, newspaper, video, or podcast.
Type a title, ISBN, DOI, or paste a link. We auto-fill the details from Open Library and CrossRef.
Get a formatted Works Cited entry and in-text citation. Rich text copy preserves italics in Google Docs and Word.
Every MLA citation is built from the same nine elements. Not every source uses all of them. Include only what applies.
Manual citations take 2-3 minutes each. Our generator does it in seconds with auto-fill from book and article databases.
Misplaced italics, wrong punctuation, reversed author names. Our built-in checker catches errors before you submit.
Every citation shows which fields were verified from authoritative sources and which ones need manual review.
Paste into Google Docs or Word with italics and hanging indents preserved. No more lost formatting.