APA and MLA

Question 1

APA

Answer 1

American Psychological Association

Question 2

MLA

Answer 2

Modern Language Association

Question 3

Format in Date

Answer 3

MLA: date follows the publisher in the citation; it is not in parentheses

APA: Date follows the author and is in parentheses

Question 4

Author’s name

Answer 4

MLA: The author’s full name (First Last) is spelled out

APA: The author’s last name is spelled out and first name is reduced to initials

Question 5

Capitalization

Answer 5

MLA: All major words in the titpe are capitalized and the title is underlined

APA: Only the first word of the title, first word of the subtitle, and any proper nouns are capitalized; everything else is lower case. The title is written in italicized

Question 6

Source page

Answer 6

MLA: “works cited”

APA: “references”

Question 7

In-text citation

Answer 7

MLA: Last name of author and the page number; doesn’t use commas to separate the material, or p., pp., before the page number

APA: uses the last name of the author and the date. It does use commas and “,” if a page is mentioned - uses p., pp.

Question 8

MLA

APA

Answer 8

MLA: Subjective
APA: Objective