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)