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Welcome to the research guide for the MLA Style Guide 8th Edition. This edition was released in 2016, and it comes with a lot of
changes. Be sure to check with your instructor about which documentation style he/she prefers.
In the handbook's introduction, the authors state that "your use of MLA style should be guided by these principles" (3):
MLA handbook. 8th ed., Modern Languages Association of America, 2016.
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Author. Title of source. Title of container, other contributors, version, number, publisher, publication date, location.