The MLA Style Center is the go-to guide on MLA style from the Modern Language Association. This resource is free (!) and continually updated as the companion to the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook.
The site offers several great tools to get started with MLA, including these:
What’s New in the Eighth Edition
|The eighth edition of the MLA Handbook, published in 2016, rethinks documentation for an era of digital publication. The MLA now recommends a universal set of guidelines that writers can apply to any source and gives writers in all fields—from the sciences to the humanities—the tools to intuitively document sources. Learn more below about the changes to MLA guidelines.|
The new MLA Handbook provides "universal guidelines" for use across all format types. Each element below should be part of the Works Cited reference, if given in the source.
Modern Language Association (MLA) Style is often used to document research and writing in the arts and humanities.
MLA Style provides the structure to
1. identify (cite) ideas and information from others that are incorporated in a paper.
2. create a list of sources used in a paper.