Question

How different between MLA and APA style of citation?

Answer 1

What is the difference between MLA and APA style?American Psychological Association and Modern Language Association are writing and formatting styles used in papers, reports, and academic essays. APA is predominately used in the social sciences while MLA is predominately used in the liberal arts and humanities.

Answer 2

Some of the main differences of MLA (Modern Language Association) and APA (American Psychological Association) style of citation are:

• MLA uses author's last name+page number format, while APA uses author's last name+date format;
• MLA does not uses parentheses to enclose the date, while APA does use them;
• MLA capitalizes all major words in the title, while APA capitalizes only the first word of the title and proper nouns;
• MLA underlines the title, while APA writes the titles in italics.