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MLA Style: Basics

This guide is meant to be a brief introduction to MLA and to provide general formatting and citation guidelines for this manual of style.

No Page Numbers or Paragraph Numbers

General Format

(AuthorLastName)

 

For Example

(Chan)

 

Corresponding Works Cited entry

Chan, Evans. "Postmodernism and Hong Kong Cinema." Postmodern Culture, vol. 10 no. 3, May 2000.

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