The style of the American Psychological Association (APA) is primarily used in scientific literary works. They, like the MLA produce guidelines that dictate the accepted norms for basic and advanced literary work. The majority of the work done in the APA style has to do with the disciplines of the sciences, social sciences and mathematics. As well, the APA has not yet produced guidelines concerning publishing on the web, but has developed their own style of documentation that is very different than that of the MLA or the Chicago Press.

If you intend on publishing a work on the web, that should be using APA style and are unsure how, dont fret. There are many APA style documents that have been published to the web, and the majority of them have little or know graphical design and have published their work much in the same way they would on paper. Although some authors have made

The Modern Language Association (MLA) has been for decades one of the leading developers of language and literature studies. They have produced a numbers of writing guides that contain thouroughly accepted guidelines that are taught from middle school on through to graduate level education. The MLA documentation style has been used throughout the scholarly demographic especially with the humanities academy, and has been especially influential in the publishing world, having developed and implemented standards that put into place a system in which information can be easily accessed, managed, verified and accredited.

The style of the MLA can be easily defined as that used to develop scholarly manuscripts and research papers, and primarily deals with the conventions of grammar, puncuation, quotation and the use of proper citations of documented sources. Because much of the scholoraly work being published today has yet to make it to a legitimate web forum, many of the MLA styles have not yet been evolved to suit online mediums. Because of this many works being published directly to the web have not taken on the form of the traditional website, usually appearing much like the document would had it been in print form. However, some scholars have taken it upon themselves to provide links to thier sources within the works cited lists, as well have converted the traditional in text citation over to a link that acts as an anchor to the full citation at the end of the document. We find these types of digital citing commonly in documents prepared in .pdf or in html format.