… English department front desk @ Building E3-360 Tel: 323-265-8632 Q: My instructor keeps talking about MLA format. What's that? A: The Modern Language Association (MLA) answers this question with the following statement: All fields of research … other styles, MLA style features brief parenthetical citations in the text keyed to an alphabetical list of works cited that appears at the end of the work. MLA style has been widely adopted by schools, academic departments, and instructors for over half a century. The association's guidelines are also used by over 1,100 scholarly and literary journals, newsletters, and magazines and by many university and commercial presses. The MLA's …