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)