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Verify MLA citations

MLA's “Works Cited” entries put the container title and page range front and centre, with no DOI required. That makes invented page ranges and slightly-off container names the easiest things to slip past a reader skimming a bibliography.

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MLA reference anatomy

Author(s). “Title.” Container, vol., no., Year, pages.

LeCun, Yann, et al. “Deep Learning.” Nature, vol. 521, no. 7553, 2015, pp. 436–44.

What goes wrong in MLA bibliographies

  • Invented page ranges — MLA's pp. format invites plausible fabrication
  • Container titles that don't match the actual journal
  • Real authors attached to articles they never wrote

A MLA citation we would flag

Vaswani, Ashish, et al. “Attention Is All You Need.” Neural Computation, vol. 30, 2017, pp. 1–11.

Partial — real source, fields differ

The paper exists, but it appeared in NeurIPS — not the journal Neural Computation. We flag the container mismatch and show the correct venue.