RIS to MLA Converter
JSTOR, ProQuest, and EBSCO all export RIS, and English departments all want MLA. This page closes that gap: records parse locally and render through the MLA 9 core-elements template, ready to paste into your works-cited page.
When you need this
Made for the night before the essay is due: ten sources exported from JSTOR as citations.ris, zero desire to format them by hand.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I convert RIS to MLA 9?
- JSTOR, ProQuest, and EBSCO all export RIS, and English departments all want MLA. This page closes that gap: records parse locally and render through the MLA 9 core-elements template, ready to paste into your works-cited page. Everything is free, with no account and no conversion limit.
- Is my data uploaded anywhere?
- No — the RIS you paste or upload is parsed entirely in your browser. Only the parsed reference fields (author, title, year) are sent to our formatter to render the citations; your file itself never leaves your device.
- When is a RIS to MLA 9 conversion useful?
- Made for the night before the essay is due: ten sources exported from JSTOR as citations.ris, zero desire to format them by hand.
- Can I convert to other styles and formats too?
- Yes. CitationEasy's generator formats any source in 10,832 citation styles, the bibliography exports Word, RTF, BibTeX, RIS, and CSL-JSON, and the converter hub lists every direct conversion pair. If you need a style-to-style rewrite of already-formatted text, use the Citation Format Converter tool instead.