As the MLA Handbook notes, “A title is placed in quotation marks if it is part of a larger work” (25). Thus, enclose in quotation marks… Read More
Use a single line space to separate stanzas of poetry, as in this excerpt from Felicia Hemans’s “The Image in Lava”: Thou thing of years… Read More
Cite the works-cited quick guide from The MLA Style Center by following the MLA format template described in the guide. If you are referring to the guide as… Read More
When you refer to the names of headers or titled sections in a work, you may style them with or without quotation marks as long… Read More
Cite the version of the essay that is contained in the database because that is the version you are using. Let’s say, for example, you… Read More
You should place an exclamation point or a question mark after the parenthetical reference for a paraphrase: Why did Karl Marx say that a commodity is… Read More
No, you should not italicize the names of television channels or radio stations. The show originally aired on Cartoon Network. She listed to the weather… Read More
Normally, when you quote from a source, your reader is to assume that any styling, such as italics or punctuation in the quotation, is in… Read More
Unless otherwise indicated, the reader should assume that you are the author of the figures in your paper. Provide a label (e.g., “Fig. 1”) and… Read More
Follow the MLA format template. Say, for example, you wish to cite a marriage index on Ancestry as your source for the date of a… Read More