What is an MLA format?

im sorry i can't remember what my teacher told me it was but basically you just write you name (last then first) (no comma) and then the date like for instance as today 1 May 2009 this page may help a href="http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/" rel="nofollow"http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resour…/a