The ninth edition of the MLA Handbook aims for stylistic consistency in prose and works-cited-list entries. Since seasons are styled lowercase in prose (e.g., My favorite seasons… Read More
If you are making a passing reference to the contents page of a journal, a citation is not needed. If, however, you are treating the… Read More
How you cite the MLA’s journal Profession depends on which version you are citing. Before 2013, Profession was a print journal published once a year. Beginning in… Read More
If in your essay you use a quotation from a poem that you found in a journal article, your in-text citation should include “qtd. in.”… Read More
An early-access article—also called an article published before print or an article published ahead of print, among other names—is an article that is slated for inclusion… Read More
Yes. Databases house digital copies of works and supply the publication information for the version of those works that have been digitized, usually in PDF… Read More
Create a separate works-cited-list entry for each part of a serialized article or for each article published in a series, following the MLA format template. Read More
Omit the article number and page numbers, as shown in the example below, because the name of the author and the title of the journal… Read More
How you cite a periodical that you are using over a range of dates depends on whether you are borrowing any material from it. If… Read More
References in a dissertation should be in a consistent style (e.g., MLA) and location (at the end of each chapter or at the end of… Read More