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What’s New on MLA Handbook Plus
Updates to MLA Handbook Plus as of September 2023 are listed below.
Video Courses
- A ten-part, step-by-step course on quoting and paraphrasing, with quizzes to reinforce learning
- A course on using the MLA practice template to create works-cited-list entries, with a final quiz
Updates to the MLA Handbook on This Site
- More than one hundred brand-new entries added to “Citation Examples” (appendix 2), many for works in languages other than English
- Five new annotated papers added to “Sample Papers in MLA Style” (appendix 4)
- The designation “foreign language” replaced with “language other than English” and, in relevant contexts, “non-English language”
- New and expanded guidance on the following topics:
- formatting headings (1.5), tables and illustrations (1.7), lists (1.10), glossaries (1.17), and appendixes (1.18–1.26) in research papers
- capitalizing acronyms (2.65)
- capitalizing abbreviations in titles (2.90)
- translating titles (2.98, 2.125, 5.30)
- styling ordinal numbers and numbers that designate ages (2.127)
- styling months in the Publication Date element (5.77)
- formatting quotations of song lyrics (6.37, 6.38)
- avoiding citations in headings (6.43)
- using notes to provide original publication information (7.1)
- using more than one note in a sentence (7.4)
New Books
- Second edition of the MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature