If you refer to two people with the same last name, repeat their full names for subsequent mentions whenever your reader might not be certain… Read More
If you need to shorten a title within quotation marks that begins with a title in quotation marks, use the title within the title as… Read More
The in-text citation for a film should key to a works-cited-list entry. If you list a film under its title, you must refer to the title in… Read More
In an interview, the person being interviewed is generally considered the author; thus the works-cited-list entry for the interview will be listed under that person’s… Read More
Use the first name. Some categories of personal names lack a last name–for example, some rulers and members of the nobility and many premodern people, whose name… Read More
As the MLA Handbook notes, “When a source has no page numbers or any other kind of part number, no number should be given in a parenthetical… Read More
If a source is written by an author who is known only by initials, you have several options. Treat the Initials as a Unit One… Read More
Nonconsecutive page numbers are presented in the same order as the quotations to which they refer: As Ann Smith notes, some scholars contend that “the… Read More
Yes. In the following example of a quotation from an early English work, the quotation appears on page 37v, so you would include both the… Read More
MLA style aims to make in-text citations as unobtrusive as possible, so we normally recommend placing them at the end of a sentence, but sometimes… Read More