Although publishers paginate front matter using roman numerals, your dissertation need not use them unless they are required by your institution’s guidelines for formatting dissertations. Read More
Quoted material must be attributed wherever it occurs. In your prose, this generally means including an in-text citation or endnote in due proximity to the… Read More
Research papers and manuscripts are generally composed in portrait rather than landscape orientation—that is, vertically rather than horizontally. This is the default setting for most… Read More
We appreciate hearing from readers with suggestions for adapting MLA style to specific cases. Here, one reader finds a way to clarify a potentially ambiguous… Read More
If a parenthetical reference does not fit on the final line of a block quotation, place it at the start of the next line. Read More
Practices for formatting a Q and A vary. The Style Center includes some examples of the MLA’s practice. See, for instance, our posts on digital literacy… Read More
Months in the header on the first page of a student paper may be spelled out or abbreviated. Students should ask their instructor for the… Read More
In our books, we follow our colleagues at The Chicago Manual of Style for note numbers and symbols in titles: “In books, a note number should… Read More
The MLA does not offer specific guidelines for handwritten papers, so instructors should adapt guidelines for typed papers as they see fit. Read More
Tables of contents may be formatted in a number of ways. In our publications, we sometimes list chapter numbers before chapter titles and sometimes list… Read More