Mention the author of the section you are citing in a signal phrase. For clarity, you might indicate the name of the section in your… Read More
This post offer commonsense guidelines on treating URLs in works-cited-list entries . . . Read More
Published in April 2021, the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook works as both a textbook and a reference guide. You can order a copy… Read More
As always, when you are citing a work contained in a larger work, you must identify the particular work you are citing. Thus, if you… Read More
As noted in the MLA Handbook, if a source lists two or more publishers, include each of them in the Publisher element, separating them with… Read More
If you are writing about a book that has been translated into more than one language, you can differentiate between the translations by citing the… Read More
An MLA editor offers a glimpse of some of the finer points of MLA style Read More
How you cite a commercial depends on where you found it. As always, follow the MLA format template. Let’s say you are citing a commercial… Read More
As the MLA Handbook notes, “[W]hen an entire paragraph is based on material from a single source,” you might “define a source in the text at the… Read More
In an interview, the person being interviewed is generally considered the author; thus the works-cited-list entry for the interview will be listed under that person’s… Read More