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MLA 8 th Edition in. Key Changes  No more medium of publication (Web, Print, DVD)  Abbreviations  No more n.d., n.p., and n. pag. abbreviations  Trans.,

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1 MLA 8 th Edition in

2 Key Changes  No more medium of publication (Web, Print, DVD)  Abbreviations  No more n.d., n.p., and n. pag. abbreviations  Trans., perf., and dir. abbreviations are now written as “translated by,” “performances by,” and “directed by.”  Ed. is no longer “edited by” but always “edition.”  P only stands for Press when a University Press (e.g. U of Michigan P but not Greenview Press).  Block quotations are now indented 0.5″ instead of 1″ Discontinued

3 Key Changes  Et al. begins at three authors instead of four.  URLs are back.  Vol. and no. designations are back for periodicals (no more 23.4, but rather vol. 23, no. 4).  Time and time ranges required for audio and video (00:03:16-19)  One citation model (Book with corporate author, journal paginated by year)  The concept of containers New

4 New Works Cited entries Template Burgess, Anthony. “Politics in the Novels of Graham Greene.” Journal of Contemporary History, vol.2, no. 2, Apr. 1967, pp. 93-99. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/259952.


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