diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5d271da2053..22c485aab70 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ Note that this project **does not** adhere to [Semantic Versioning](http://semve
 - We fixed an issue where an "Not on FX thread" exception occured when saving on linux [#6453](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/6453)
 - We fixed an issue where the library sort order was lost. [#6091](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/6091)
 - We fixed an issue where brackets in regular expressions were not working. [6469](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/6469)
+- We fixed an issue where LaTeX citations for specific commands (\autocites) of biblatex-mla were not recognized. [#6476](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/6476)
 
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/texparser/DefaultLatexParser.java b/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/texparser/DefaultLatexParser.java
index 4e17777ab3d..60972fba036 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/texparser/DefaultLatexParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/texparser/DefaultLatexParser.java
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ public class DefaultLatexParser implements LatexParser {
      */
     private static final String[] CITE_COMMANDS = {
             "[cC]ite(alt|alp|author|authorfull|date|num|p|t|text|title|url|year|yearpar)?",
-            "([aA]|[aA]uto|fnote|foot|footfull|full|no|[nN]ote|[pP]aren|[pP]note|[tT]ext|[sS]mart|super)cite",
+            "([aA]|[aA]uto|fnote|foot|footfull|full|no|[nN]ote|[pP]aren|[pP]note|[tT]ext|[sS]mart|super)cite([s*]?)",
             "footcitetext", "(block|text)cquote"
     };
     private static final String CITE_GROUP = "key";