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MLA Style Manual, formerly titled MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing in its second (1998) and third edition (2008), was an academic style guide by the United States–based Modern Language Association of America (MLA) first published in 1985. MLA announced in April 2015 that the publication would be discontinued: the third ...
The Lancet: Formatting Guidelines for Authors: Formatting Guidelines for Electronic Submission of Revised Manuscripts. WWW OSNews Style Guide: Rules and Guidelines for Publishing and Participating on OSNews, by T. Holwerda. OSNews, 2007. Web Style Guide, 2nd ed., by Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton.
Editors should structure articles with consistent, reader-friendly layouts and formatting (which are detailed in this guide). Where more than one style or format is acceptable under the MoS, one should be used consistently within an article and should not be changed without good reason. Edit warring over stylistic choices is unacceptable. [b]
Text formatting in citations should follow, consistently within an article, an established citation style or system. Options include either of Wikipedia's own template-based Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2 , and any other well-recognized citation system.
A number of proposed or inactive language-specific guidelines exist, but they are not listed here; there are language-specific guidelines for several languages including Korean, Chinese and Hebrew; most issues are instead covered by naming conventions. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Canada-related articles (MOS:CA)
The section headings in the article start at the second level (==Heading 2==), with subsections at the third level (===Heading 3===), and so on. Sections should not skip levels from sections to sub-subsections (e.g., a fourth-level subsection heading immediately after a second-level heading). See also. Introduction to formatting (Wiki markup)
Change the section headings to fit the new article (that generally means removing one equal sign from each side of every heading). Add one or more categories to the article (you'll want to use most, if not all of the categories on the parent article; you'll see the wikitext when you edit the final section of the parent article).
MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (3rd ed.). New York: Modern Language Association of America. ISBN 978-0-87352-297-7. Modern Language Association (2009). MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed.). Modern Language Association of America. ISBN 978-1-60329-024-1.