APA vs MLA

One difference between MLA and APA is in-text citations, in MLA you put the page number you found the information on after the authors name and in APA you put the year it was published. In MLA you block quotes that are 4 lines or longer, and in APA you block quotes that are 40 or more words. In MLA you title the page of your sources at the end “works cited” and in APA it is titled “references”. MLA doesn’t use commas or pp. to separate information like page numbers but APA does.

            One similarity is that they both use parenthesis to cite sources in the body of a paper. Citations in the “works cited” or “references” page are listed in alphabetical order. Both styles are supposed to be double spaced