-% MLA style consists of a set of documentation conventions that has gained
-% widespread acceptance in the humanites. \LaTeX{} is a
-% document preparation system enjoying populatity in the scientific field.
+% ^^A MLA style, consisting of a set of documentation conventions, has
+% ^^A gained widespread acceptance in the humanities.
+% According to the {\em MLA Handbook for Writers of Research
+% Papers}\citeC{handbook}, MLA style is a set of ``commonly agreed-on
+% rules for documenting quotations, facts, opinions and paraphrases'' that
+% ``is preferred by a substantial majority of scholarly journals in
+% language and literature{\makeatletter\ifmlastyle@style
+% .''\citeM[xvi]{handbook}\else.''\fi} \LaTeX{} is a
+% document preparation system enjoying popularity in the scientific field.