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Should shortened generic forms of proper nouns be capitalized?

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

When a source consists of only one page, such as a newspaper article, should I give the page number in my in-text citation?

Can I create a works-cited-list entry for an essay, poem, or story in a collection by one author?

How do I cite two versions of a poem from the same anthology?

Are names of groups like African American and Native American ever hyphened in MLA style?

How should Icelandic names be cited?

When should I capitalize the first letter of the first word of a quotation?

How do I format and document epigraphs in MLA style?

How should I cite an e-book version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet that uses paragraph numbers instead of line numbers?

Why does the MLA capitalize certain words in titles?

If I need to fit a quotation syntactically into a sentence, can I use empty brackets to indicate that I have removed letters from a verb?

How do I cite an essay from one volume of a multivolume work when the volume is identified by a date range?

How do you cite an encyclical letter?

How do I cite an illustration on an unnumbered page if there is no figure number?