Convert your paper's Works Cited to MLA 9th edition
MLA in-text citations carry no year - just author and page. Coming from a social-science style, that is the first thing to change. Upload the DOCX and we handle it in one pass.
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1,000 words costs 5 credits
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What this style looks like
- In-text citation
- (Smith and Lee 245)
- Reference list entry
- Smith, John, and Amy Lee. "Deep Learning for Protein Folding." Nature Methods, vol. 20, no. 3, 2023, pp. 245–58.
Two structural differences from social-science styles
No year, and no comma, in the in-text citation. MLA writes author, space, page number - no comma, no year anywhere - where APA writes author, comma, year. That difference appears dozens or hundreds of times across a paper and is tedious to fix by hand. Note also that MLA uses "and", not "&".
The container concept. Introduced in MLA 8 and carried into MLA 9, this is the core idea: a source may sit inside nested containers. An article appears in a journal (container 1), and that journal sits in a database (container 2). Each container has its own element sequence - title, contributors, version, number, publisher, date, location.
The design handles any source type - film, podcast, tweet, web page - but the cost is that applying container structure by hand is error-prone, especially for web sources and material quoted at second hand.
One more detail: MLA 9 abbreviates page ranges and labels volume and issue explicitly with "vol." and "no."
FAQ
Will it change my body text?
No. The body is frozen throughout; only in-text citations and the reference list are processed. That is also why it costs far less than humanizing - 5 credits per 1,000 words.
My in-text citations include years, an APA habit. Can they become MLA?
Yes - they are standardized to MLA’s author-page form, with the year removed from in-text citations.
Can it handle web pages, film, or interviews?
Entries already in your document are standardized per MLA container rules. Spot-check unusual source types afterwards.
Will the Works Cited be reordered?
Alphabetically by author surname.
What does it cost for one paper?
5 credits per 1,000 words - the cheapest of our four tools, because only the citations are processed. An 8,000-word paper runs about 40 credits (under $0.50). New accounts get 100 free credits.