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What’s New on MLA Handbook Plus
Updates to MLA Handbook Plus as of September 2022 are listed below.
New Editions
- The second edition of the MLA Guide to Digital Literacy, by Ellen C. Carillo, replaced the first edition
Updates to the MLA Handbook on This Site
- Added! More than one hundred brand-new entries to “Citation Examples” (formerly titled “Appendix 2: Works-Cited-List Entries by Publication Format”)
- “Citation Examples” categories revised to optimize search and improve findability
- New! A guide to English grammar
- New! Six annotated sample papers in MLA style
- New and expanded guidance in the following sections:
- On capitalizing titles (2.90)
- On styling tweets in prose (2.109)
- On styling untitled works in prose (2.123)
- On citing databases (5.35)
- On citing video games (5.54, 5.112)
- On when to include a copyright date as a publication date (5.68)
- On ordering works with identical titles in the list of works cited (5.130)
- On the use of authors’ full names in prose and in citations (6.4)
- On citing works with identical titles (6.15)
- On how to cite an unnumbered page in a paginated work (6.16)
- On using an ellipsis in a short quotation of poetry (6.61)
- On the use of square brackets to adjust the syntax in a quotation (6.67)
- On bilingual quotations, with many new examples (6.75)