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The new MLA 9 adds clarity, guidance and expansion to an overhauled system of core elements for Works Cited. It also focuses more on emerging sources, including digital ones.

MLA 9, which is the ninth edition of the manual, includes updates to spelling, punctuation and capitalization as well as expanded coverage on incorporating titles of books and magazines into a citation. It also offers more guidance on formatting tables and illustrations and on using slashes, hyphens, colons, parentheses and dashes. It also provides a deeper dive into in-text citations and reintroduces MLA’s guidance on research papers, which were absent from the previous edition. Learn more msn.com

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MLA 9 expands upon the definition of an author, ensuring that any author who appears in the work is listed, as well as any organization or publisher with which the author has a relationship. This allows for more consistency in citing sources. It also provides more clarification on defining types of sources, such as notes, websites and blogs. MLA 9 also offers more examples of how to use these sources in a citation and explains when to include quotation marks around the title of a source, and when to insert a URL into a Works Cited entry.

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