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MLA 9th

MLA (Modern Language Association) 9th edition is an author-page number referencing style requiring an in-text citation within the text of your document and a related entry in a works cited at the end of your document.

TED talk - works cited

Title of talk: For TED talks, the TItle of talk is in italics and is in sentence case, i.e. capitalise the first letter of the first word and the first word after a colon. Capitalise proper nouns.

No date: If there is no date, add the date accessed, e.g. Accessed 1 Nov. 2024.

For more information on reference list format and style, see General information - basics of referencing.

Format

Author. "Title of talk." Name of site, Publication date, URL.

Example

Nowinski, Chris. "Can I have your brain? The quest for truth on concussions and CTE." TED Conferences, Nov. 2017, ted.com/talks/
chris_nowinski_can_i_have_your_brain_the_quest_for_truth_on_concussions_and_cte.

TED talk - in-text citations

Parenthetical citation: When you use another person’s ideas or words in your text, include the author’s name and page number/s in brackets, generally at the end of the sentence, e.g. ... education is a key factor (Wall 25).

Citation in prose: When you use the author’s name as part of a sentence (generally at the beginning of a sentence), include the page number in brackets at the end of the sentence, e.g. Thomas Jones discussed the appropriateness of using wet towelling ... (2).

No pagination: Add the author's name as part of the sentence to show it has been paraphrased.

Time stamp: A time stamp can be used in the place of the page number. Separate the hours, minutes and seconds with colons (e.g. Jones 00:07:03).

Examples

Parenthetical citation

... shares his story about having a severe concussion and the effects on his life, and top athletes with concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (Nowinski 00:01:20).

Citation in prose

Nowinski talks about the impact of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in top athletes, and he got them to donate their brains to science (00:01:20).