How should Native American names be treated in works-cited-list entries?
If you are citing a work by a Native American author and the author’s name consists of a first name and a last name, invert… Read More
If you are citing a work by a Native American author and the author’s name consists of a first name and a last name, invert… Read More
In a works-cited-list entry for a work by more than one author, the first name is inverted because the entry is alphabetized under the first… Read More
Authors may write and publish under different names—by adopting pseudonyms or changing their names. When you are aware that an author has published under different… Read More
Names of titled contests are set roman without quotation marks: The American Association for the Advancement of Science announced the tenth annual Dance Your Ph.D. contest. When… Read More
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
Style the name of a fictional character just as you would the name of a person: capitalize the initial letter of each name. Do not… Read More
No, you should not italicize the names of television channels or radio stations. The show originally aired on Cartoon Network. She listed to the weather… Read More
It depends on the focus of your work. In a dissertation on a single author or title—say, Gabriel Marcel’s Being and Having: An Existentialist Diary—it… Read More
Page 41 of the MLA Handbook advises writers to first look for the publisher’s name on the title page, so in your works-cited-list entry, use… Read More