The New MLA

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The New MLA

• A guide for consultants

2
What Has Changed?

• Paper format and in-text citations remain the
  same. Works cited entries have changed.

3
What Has Changed?

• Titles are now italicized instead of underlined.
• For example
• Bernstein, Theodore M. The Careful Writer A
  Modern Guide to English Usage

4
What Has Changed?

• Medium of the source is specified at the end of
  each entry.
• Bernstein, Theodore M. The Careful Writer A
  Modern Guide to English Usage. New York
  Athenaeum, 1965. Print.

5
What Has Changed?

• Website entries no longer include the URL!
• Fuchigami, Salina Khan. Green Business Blog
  The Devastating Cost of Diamonds. CNN.com.
  Cable News Network, 15. Jun. 2009. Web. 16 Jun.
  2009.

6
What Has Changed?

• Web sources now call for publication information
  and page number. In the absence of publisher
  information, use N.p., and add n.d. when
  there is no date of publication. N.pag. is
  included when the website has no page numbers.
• Bierce, Ambrose. Academy. The Devils
  Dictionary. The Collected Works of Ambrose
  Bierce. Vol. 7. New York Neale, 1911. N. pag.
  The Ambrose Bierce Project. Web. 15 May 2008.

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What Has Changed?

• Volume and issue numbers must be included in
  bibliography entries of scholarly journals
  whether or not the journals use continuous
  pagination.
• Piper, Andrew. Rethinking the Print Object
  Goethe and the Book of Everything. PMLA 121.1
  (2006) 124- 38. Print.

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Before and After

• Before
• Bernstein, Theodore M. The Careful Writer A
  Modern Guide to English Usage. New York
  Athenaeum, 1965.
• After
• Bernstein, Theodore M. The Careful Writer A
  Modern Guide to English Usage. New York
  Athenaeum, 1965. Print.

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Before and After

• Before
• Fuchigami, Salina Khan. Green Business Blog
  The Devastating Cost of Diamonds. CNN.com 15
  June 2009. Cable News Network. 16 June 2009
  lthttp//www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/06 /15/diaz
  .diamonds.going.green/index.html?ir ef24hoursgt.
• After
• Fuchigami, Salina Khan. Green Business Blog
  The Devastating Cost of Diamonds. CNN.com.
  Cable News Network, 15. Jun. 2009. Web. 16 Jun.
  2009.

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Before and After

• Kaplan, Eran. Amos Ozs A Tale of Love and
  Darkness and the Sabra Myth. Jewish Social
  Studies History, Culture, Society 14.1 (2007)
  119-43. Project Muse. Web. 31 July 2009.