Use three ellipsis points bracketed by forward slashes to indicate that one or more lines have been omitted from a run-in poetry quotation. Read More
To cite a volume originally published in a multivolume work and republished as part of a different multivolume work, cite the work as it appears… Read More
No. For an example, see our post on citing raw data. Read More
When you are citing something you found on a website, the website itself should be considered the container no matter the original form of publication. Read More
No, but if it’s important for your reader to know, you can write “Oral interview” as a description in the “Title of source” slot in the… Read More
The MLA Handbook (3.5) provides techniques for making citations more concise when a source is used more than once in succession. But it notes that you should… Read More
If you paraphrase a single idea from more than one source and the sources are equally important, the order in which you list them is… Read More
In its online and print publications, when the MLA refers in prose to the label or functional element of a website or other electronic device… Read More
No, but you could indicate in a note that the song was originally a poem. … Read More
To distinguish between different dictionary entries for the same term, follow the principle in our previous post on distinguishing between works with the same title:… Read More