Change to MLA 8th Edition? Possible option for MLA 7th Edition?

mboyington · September 30, 2017

Today Zotero has changed to MLA 8th edition for exporting my bibliography. It has also updated to include the new changes to the footnote formatting Modern Humanities.

I'm finishing my dissertation after 8 long years and the formatting has suddenly changed, but I'm still using the 7th edition. Is there anyway to get it back on my Firefox browser.

Could you add in the choice of both for a short transition period for those of us working in older documents?

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

bwiernik · September 30, 2017

The 7th edition style is still available:

https://www.zotero.org/styles/modern-language-association-7th-edition

adamsmith · September 30, 2017

...and we'll keep it available for a long time, at least until the 9th edition comes out.

Rintze · September 30, 2017

Just a little bit more information: new installations of Zotero come with a number of preinstalled citation styles, including an MLA style (see https://github.com/zotero/bundled-styles for the full list).

On September 28, 2017, we upgraded this bundled MLA style from the 7th to 8th edition. The 8th edition of the MLA handbook was published in April 2016, so we were already a little slow in moving this bundled style over to the 8th edition.

People who still want to use the 7th edition, like yourself, can (re)install this version at https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:modern-language-association-7th-edition. We understand this is a little annoying for some people, but we hope most people don't mind being upgraded to the latest MLA version.

Rintze · September 30, 2017

@dstillman, maybe you can make this a sticky thread for the next few weeks? This style upgrade affects all Zotero users who use the bundled MLA style, so there are bound to be more people with the same question.

Rintze · November 11, 2017

@dstillman, this can probably be unstickied by now.