MLA Style Manual

MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing

MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, 3rd ed. (2008)
Author	Modern Language Association of America (MLA); Domna C. Stanton (Fwd.), David G. Nicholls (Pref.)
Original title	MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing
Language	English
Subject	Style guide
Publisher	Modern Language Association of America
Publication date	2008
Publication place	United States
Published in English	May 2008
Media type	Print; large print; also listed as available as audiobook
Pages	xxiv & 336
ISBN	978-0-87352-297-7
OCLC	191090459
Dewey Decimal	808/.027 22
LC Class	PN147 .G444 2008
Preceded by	MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (2nd ed., by Joseph Gibaldi)'

The MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (2008) the third edition of The MLA Style Manual, was first published by the Modern Language Association of America in 1985. It was an academic style guide widely used in the United States, Canada, and other countries, providing guidelines for writing and documentation of research in the humanities, especially in English studies; the study of other modern languages and literatures, including comparative literature; literary criticism; media studies; cultural studies; and related disciplines (but not disciplines like history, philosophy, and theology, which follow The Chicago Manual of Style).

According to the MLA book catalog description, since first being published in 1985, the MLA Style Manual has been "the standard guide for graduate students, scholars, and professional writers". MLA style "has been widely adopted by schools, academic departments, and instructors for over half a century"; the MLA's "guidelines are also used by over 1,100 scholarly and literary journals, newsletters, and magazines and by many university and commercial presses", and they are "followed throughout North America and in Brazil, China, India, Japan, Taiwan, and other countries around the world".

Following the advent of the 8th edition of the MLA Handbook in spring 2016, the MLA stated that the MLA Style Manual would be declared out of print effective 1 September 2016.

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Purpose

The MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, 3rd ed. (2008), by the Modern Language Association of America (based on the work of Joseph Gibaldi with co-author Walter S. Achtert for The MLA Style Manual [1985], revised in the 2nd ed. in 1998), was addressed primarily to academic scholars, professors, graduate students, and other advanced-level writers of scholarly books and articles in humanities disciplines such as English and other modern languages and literatures. Many journals and presses in these disciplines require that manuscripts be submitted following MLA style.

See also

• Comparison of reference management software

References

• Achtert, Walter S., and Joseph Gibaldi. The MLA Style Manual. New York: Modern Language Association (MLA), 1985. Print.
• Modern Language Association of America. The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New York: MLA, 1977. 7th ed. New York
• MLA, 2009. ISBN 1-60329-024-9 (10). ISBN 978-1-60329-024-1 (13). ISBN 1-60329-025-7 (10). ISBN 978-1-60329-025-8 (13). Print.
• MLA. MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 3rd ed. New York: MLA, 2008. ISBN 978-0-87352-297-7 [S182C] (cloth). ISBN 978-0-87352-298-4 (paper). Print. [Also available in a large-print ed.]
• "What Is MLA Style?" MLA.org. Modern Language Association, 2011. Web. 31 Jan. 2011.

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External links

• "Frequently Asked Questions about the MLA Style Manual" – "MLA Style Manual FAQs" (official MLA Webpage)
• Citation Producer MLA Style Guide
• Purdue OWL MLA Style Guide
• Cornell University Library MLA Citation Guide from Cornell University Library