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If I include my published article as a dissertation chapter, how should I handle the article’s references?

If I want to include a DOI for a book chapter in my works-cited-list entry, where should I insert it?

If the title of an essay I am citing is also the name of a work that normally appears in italics, how should I style the name of the essay?

Should I use hyphens in compounds with adverbs ending in ly?

Should I include military ranks of authors I cite?

Should shortened generic forms of proper nouns be capitalized?

Does the MLA offer guidance for outlines?

Is it OK to join three or more independent clauses in a single sentence with conjunctions?

How should I treat foreign terms in MLA style?

How do I cite a paraphrase and a quotation that occur in the same sentence?

When creating a sortable list of alphabetized titles, where should the initial article be placed?

If the name of the publisher is the same as the name of a book, do I list the publisher’s name?

How do I cite ephemera from a museum?

If a sentence ends with an abbreviation followed by a period, should I insert another period to mark the end of the sentence?

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?