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Popular Questions

What kind of number do I put in the parenthetical citation for a poem—a page number, a line number, or another part number?

News articles are sometimes credited to agencies like Reuters and the Associated Press. Should the agencies be cited as the authors of these articles?

Is it wrong to type spaces before and after a dash?

Is it ever appropriate to use see or see also in a parenthetical citation?

The rules for positioning a parenthetical citation next to a final period seem different with run-in quotations and block quotations. What is the logic here?

Why does the MLA require the use of Times New Roman? It’s a boring font.

If my paper has only one source or only one endnote, should the heading still be plural—Works Cited or Notes?

The eighth edition of the MLA Handbook doesn’t explain how to format the research paper itself. Is this topic covered anywhere?