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MLA Handbook 2021
MLA Handbook (9th ed., 2021) is a guide for documenting sources in scholarly writing, originally titled MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers from 1977 through 2009. It is published by the Modern Language Association, located in the United States. The organization notes that their MLA style "has been widely adopted for classroom instruction and used worldwide by scholars, journal publishers, and academic and commercial presses".
The handbook originated as a shortened student version of MLA Style Manual. Both serve as academic style guides used broadly across the United States, Canada, and other regions, offering rules for research writing and documentation in the humanities including English studies (covering the English language, writing, and literature written in English); the study of other modern languages and literatures, such as comparative literature; literary criticism; media studies; cultural studies; and related fields. The eighth edition was published in April 2016, and like its predecessors, it targets secondary-school and undergraduate college and university teachers and students.
In April 2016, the Modern Language Association declared that MLA Handbook would henceforth be "the authoritative source for MLA style", ending the series with the 2008 third edition of MLA Style Manual. The announcement also mentioned that the organization "is in the process of developing additional publications to address the professional needs of scholars.
Details
- Publisher
- Modern Language Association of America
- ISBN
- 9781603293518
- Pages
- 367
