Understanding MLA 8 Updates
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The document summarizes the key changes between the 7th and 8th editions of MLA style. Some of the major differences include: - For books, the 8th edition no longer requires including the city of publication or publisher locations. - Website citations now include the title of the specific web page in quotation marks, rather than the URL. Access dates are optional. - Journal citations now include the volume number and issue number in addition to the page range. - Common terms like editor, edited by, and translator are no longer abbreviated in the works cited list. - Only the first author is provided for sources with three or more authors, followed by "et al." Dates are
Understanding MLA 8 Updates
- 1. HELPINGYOU UNDERSTAN DTHE 8TH EDITION UPDAT ESFOR MLA STYLE Stephanie Noell
- 2. Wait,What? ■ MLA 8th Edition was published in April 2016 ■ The Library currently owns two copies (LB 2369.G53 2016) and is ordering more ■ Desk Copy Request Form: https://apps.mla.org/bookrequest_form
- 4. What’s Different? ■ 7th edition journal citation: – – ■ 7th edition book citation: – – ■ 7th edition website citation: – –
- 5. What’s Different? ■ 7th edition journal citation: – – ■ 7th edition book citation: – Author. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher,Year.Type of Material. – ■ 7th edition website citation: – –
- 6. What’s Different? ■ 7th edition journal citation: – – ■ 7th edition book citation: – Author. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher,Year.Type of Material. – Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel:The Fates of Human Societies. NewYork: Norton, 1999. Print. ■ 7th edition website citation: – –
- 7. What’s Different? ■ 7th edition journal citation: – – ■ 7th edition book citation: – Author. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher,Year.Type of Material. – Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel:The Fates of Human Societies. NewYork: Norton, 1999. Print. ■ 7th edition website citation: – Author. "Title of theWeb Page." Title of the OverallWeb Site. Version or Edition. Publisher or Sponsor, Date.Web. Date of Access. –
- 8. What’s Different? ■ 7th edition journal citation: – – ■ 7th edition book citation: – Author. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher,Year.Type of Material. – Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel:The Fates of Human Societies. NewYork: Norton, 1999. Print. ■ 7th edition website citation: – Author. "Title of theWeb Page." Title of the OverallWeb Site. Version or Edition. Publisher or Sponsor, Date.Web. Date of Access. – Holahan, Catherine. "Eddie Bauer Files for Bankruptcy." MSN Money. Microsoft, 17 June 2009. Web. 17 June 2009.
- 9. What’s Different? ■ 7th edition journal citation: – Author. "Title of Article." Title ofJournal Volume number.Issue number (Year): Pages. Type of Material. – ■ 7th edition book citation: – Author. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher,Year.Type of Material. – Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel:The Fates of Human Societies. NewYork: Norton, 1999. Print. ■ 7th edition website citation: – Author. "Title of theWeb Page." Title of the OverallWeb Site. Version or Edition. Publisher or Sponsor, Date.Web. Date of Access. – Holahan, Catherine. "Eddie Bauer Files for Bankruptcy." MSN Money. Microsoft, 17 June 2009. Web. 17 June 2009.
- 10. What’s Different? ■ 7th edition journal citation: – Author. "Title of Article." Title ofJournal Volume number.Issue number (Year): Pages. Type of Material. – Davis,William D.,Thomas Cleary, Michelle Donnelly, and Samuel Hellerman. "Using Sensor Signals to Analyze Fires." Fire Technology 39.4 (2003): 295-308. Print. ■ 7th edition book citation: – Author. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher,Year.Type of Material. – Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel:The Fates of Human Societies. NewYork: Norton, 1999. Print. ■ 7th edition website citation: – Author. "Title of theWeb Page." Title of the OverallWeb Site. Version or Edition. Publisher or Sponsor, Date.Web. Date of Access. – Holahan, Catherine. "Eddie Bauer Files for Bankruptcy." MSN Money. Microsoft, 17 June 2009. Web. 17 June 2009.
- 11. What’s Different? ■ 8th Edition Book Citation: – Said, EdwardW. Culture and Imperialism. Knopf, 1994.
- 12. What’s Different? ■ 8th Edition Book Citation: – Said, EdwardW. Culture and Imperialism. Knopf, 1994. ■ 8th EditionWebsite Citation: – Klee, Paul. Twittering Machine. 1922. Museum of Modern Art, NewYork. The Artchive, www.artchive.com/artchive/K/klee/twitteri ng_machine.jpg.html.Accessed May 2006. – Klee, Paul. Twittering Machine. 1922. Museum of Modern Art, NewYork. The Artchive.
- 13. What’s Different? ■ 8th Edition Book Citation: – Said, EdwardW. Culture and Imperialism. Knopf, 1994. ■ 8th EditionWebsite Citation: – Klee, Paul. “Twittering Machine.” 1922. Museum of Modern Art, NewYork. The Artchive, www.artchive.com/artchive/K/klee/twitteri ng_machine.jpg.html.Accessed May 2006. – Klee, Paul. “Twittering Machine.” 1922. Museum of Modern Art, NewYork. The Artchive. ■ 8th Edition Journal Citation: – Bagchi,Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms:The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies inWomen's Literature, vol. 15, no. 1, 1996, pp. 41-50.
- 14. In Summary ■ For in-text citations: – No changes to the basic format of parenthetical citations – For videos and other time-based formats, a time- stamp must be listed – Pp. 117-118 cover shortening titles for parenthetical citations
- 15. In Summary ■ ForWorks Cited entries: – More universal model for citations – No more book publisher locations – Access dates and URLs (no angle brackets) are optional for web resources, so be sure to specify your preferences to your students – Common terms in theWorks Cited list like editor, edited by, translator, and review of are no longer abbreviated – When a source has 3 or more authors, only the first one shown in the source is normally given. It is followed by et al. – Page numbers in the Works Cited list (but not in in-text citations) are preceded by p. or pp. – Volume numbers are preceded by vol. and issue numbers are preceded by no. – If no date is found, omit it completely (n.d. is no longer used); if a date is found in an outside source, list it in brackets – If an organization is listed as both author and publisher, they should be listed as the publisher with no author given – The type/medium of publication is no longer listed (unless for clarity)
- 17. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- #12: These are your MLA Core Elements
- #16: There are officially 19 abbreviations you can use in your Works Cited pages (ch, dept, ed, eg, et al, etc, ie, no, P (for publishers with press in their names), p, pp, par (paragraph), qtd in, rev (revised), sec (section), trans (translation), U (for anything with university in the name), UP (university press), vol; there are also acceptable abbreviations for books of the Bible, apocrypha, and works of Shakespeare The previous author rule was four or more