Reorganized and revised, the third edition of the MLA Style Manual offers complete, up-to-date guidance on writing scholarly texts, documenting research sources, submitting manuscripts to publishers, and dealing with legal issues surrounding publication. New in the third edition - a significant revision of MLA documentation style - simplified citation formats for electronic sources - detailed advice on the review process used by scholarly journals and presses - a fully updated chapter on copyright, fair use, contracts, and other legal issues - guidelines on preparing electronic files - discussion of the electronic submission of a dissertation - a foreword by Domna C. Stanton on the current state of scholarly publishing - a preface by David G. Nicholls on what is new in the third edition
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