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
There is an entire category of material that you do not reproduce . . . 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
Cite a photograph found on a website the same way you would cite any work of art found online. See our post on citing images… Read More
You should place an exclamation point or a question mark after the parenthetical reference for a paraphrase: Why did Karl Marx say that a commodity is… Read More