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Popular Questions

Is it acceptable to use the abbreviation cf. in MLA style?

I’m citing an online article that lacks page numbers. The database containing it provides the page range for the original print version. Do I include the page numbers in my entry?

How do I cite the keynote from a Twitter conference?

If I am including a publication listed by a title written in nonroman characters in my works-cited list, should I provide in my parenthetical citations the title in the original script or the transliterated title?

How should mathematical theories be cited in my prose and in my works-cited list?

Should I credit the reviewers of an online article?

When citing a work on a website, should I use the original publication date or the last-updated date?

How do I cite an essay from a database that was first published in a journal and later anthologized?

When citing an article with no DOI that appears in a database, should I provide the URL specific to my institution?

Should a Norton Critical Edition be listed as a version or as a series in a works-cited-list entry?

How do I cite in my prose an untitled poem known by its number in a collection?

Should italics or quotation marks be used for a character’s internal thoughts?

If I need to separate titles styled in quotation marks by semicolons in my parenthetical citations, should the semicolons go inside or outside the quotations marks?

How does the MLA style 9/11, when it refers to the attacks on the United States on that date?

How do you cite a summary of a work in MLA style?