APA and MLA Style for Quoting and Citing

There are a few different styles in writing research papers, and two common styles are MLA and APA. There are similarities and differences in the structures for these papers. The citing and quoting of these styles also have a few things that are alike. In block quotations, the parenthesis with the author and page number inside comes after the period. Also if the author is stated in the sentence then the parenthesis doesn’t need the author’s name, only the page number.   

The differences for citing and quoting for these two styles are important in the structure of the paper. In an MLA paper, the parenthesis only have the author and page number inside. If the author isn’t given, then use the title of the source. Block quotations are indented ten spaces, while in an APA paper it’s indented five to seven spaces. Also in MLA papers, the publication date is included in the parenthesis.