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Should the school where a course, seminar, or lecture occurred be listed as the container or the location?

If a tweet contains an emoji, should I include the emoji when I use the text of the tweet as a title?

How do I cite book cover art?

How do I cite a deed or other real estate record in MLA style?

How do I cite a political cartoon?

If I have edited an image for publication, how do I cite it?

How do I cite photographs or other images that I use in a PowerPoint presentation or web project?

If my works-cited-list entry has a title styled in quotation marks that ends in a question mark, should I insert a period after the question mark?

How do I cite an infographic?

How do I cite a magazine cover in my works-cited list and in my essay?

How do I cite a photo or other image reproduced in a website article?

How do I show the blank space between stanzas when quoting from a poem?

How do I format an appendix and style its heads?

How do you cite speech bubbles from a graphic narrative or comic book?

If I am citing an image from a database, and no information is provided about the artist, do I need to seek out the information for my citation?