MLA vs Harvard

• In-text citation: MLA — (Rasch and Born 685); Harvard — (Rasch and Born, 2013).
• Reference list title: MLA — Works Cited; Harvard — Reference List.
• Ordering: MLA alphabetizes by author; Harvard alphabetizes by author.
• MLA traits: Only the first author's name is inverted; co-authors appear in natural order with full first names; Titles use Title Case — capitalize all principal words.
• Harvard traits: All authors inverted with initials, joined by 'and' (no ampersand); Article titles take 'single quotation marks'; containers are italicized.

Identical facts, different arrangement — note the author names, casing, and where the date sits. Already have a citation in one style? Convert it to the other in one click.

MLA: MLA cites in the text with author and page: (Alvarez 12) — no comma, no year. Sources without page numbers (most web sources) cite the author alone: (Alvarez). Three or more authors use et al.: (Harris et al. 360).

Harvard: Harvard cites in the text with author and year, comma included: (Alvarez, 2024), adding a page for quotes: (Alvarez, 2024, p. 12). Three or more authors use et al.: (Harris et al., 2020). Named in your sentence, only the year is parenthesized: Alvarez (2024) argues…

Whatever your assignment, department, or journal requires — that overrules everything. When the choice is genuinely yours: pick MLA if your work sits in English, literature, languages, and the humanities, and Harvard for UK, Australian, and international universities across disciplines. Structurally, choose MLA when where a passage lives in the text — page-level precision matters more to your readers, and Harvard when author–date clarity with institution-specific variants does.

Then be perfectly consistent — a clean paper in either style beats a hybrid of both, and mixed styles are the first thing graders notice. Since the generator renders both styles from one paste, switching late costs nothing.