I grew up using the MLA citation format so I am trying to see the differences between the APA and the MLA formats.

The APA includes a title page while MLA doesn’t. There is one little difference that I need to beware of, and it’s the in-text citations. MLA only sites the author’s name, for websites, and for books/texts, it cites the author’s name then the page number. On the other hand, APA cites the author’s name, the year it was published, and the page number. The work cited page, which APA citation called references, is a little different.

For an article essay, MLA always has the heading on the header and page number on the bottom right-hand corner. But, APA has a heading for each page and no header. Plus, the page number is in the top right-hand corner. MLA citations also only cite at the beginning or the end of the sentence while APA cites right when resources were used.