Office 365 MLA 9th Edition

Question

When will office have MLA 9th Edition they only have 7 which is very different even from 8 I am paying a lot of money for this software and dont expect outdated results. Costing me marks in my assignment

Answer 1

Don't hold your breath.

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I think it is safe to say MS has abandoned the Citations and Bibliography feature.

.  *  Word 365 supports APA 6 (2016-2019), APA 7 (2019-) is current version

.  *  Word 365 provides MLA 7 (1977-2009), MLA 9 (2021-) current version

.  *  Word 365 provides Turabian 5, Turabian 9 (2018-) is current version.

.  *  Word 365 provides Chicago 16, Chicago 17 (2017-) is current version.

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Any school or teacher requiring students to use the bibliography feature in Word is an ID-10-T. They should

.  *  teach how to work around the current limitations of Word,

.  *  explicitly tell you to not waste your time trying to use the feature, do it manually

.  *  tell you to use an external tool, maybe even tell you which one

.  *  accept the out of date style formatting provided Word.
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Don't use the feature, your other options are simple:

. * Do your bibliography manually

. * find and use an external citation manager

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Here are a small example set of external Biblioography / Citation tools you can use with word, there are many more:

OWL- Purdue Online Writing Lab – APA / MLA

https://owl.purdue.edu/index.html

Welcome to the Purdue OWL. We offer free resources including Writing and Teaching Writing, Research, Grammar and Mechanics, Style Guides, ESL (English as a Second Language), and Job Search and Professional Writing.
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Zotero – APA / MLA

https://www.zotero.org/

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

Just need to create a quick bibliography? Try ZoteroBib.

Zotero instantly creates references and bibliographies for any text editor, and directly inside Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs. With support for over 100,000 citation styles, you can format your work to match any style guide or publication.
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EasyBib Web app

https://www.easybib.com/
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Scribbr Web Citation Generator

https://www.scribbr.com/apa-citation-generator/
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Please vote for and add comments to these feedbacks to MS

Browser Feedback portal

Please REMOVE obsolete Bibliography Citation feature
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/fd2ef35b-4fa1-ec11-a81c-002248504419
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Answer 2

Dear Kingo,

Sorry for the inconvenience. I'm afraid that MLA 9th Edition isn't supported in the Word application now. Some people has submitted their feedback on the Feedback platform. As it is a feature needed to involve our related team to add in the later version number of the Word application, I kindly suggest you vote there as well so that they can be aware of your requirements and suggestions for product improvements.

Thanks for your understanding and have a nice day!

Cliff