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The best way to avoid multiple punctuation is to rewrite if possible.
Let's say you are citing the passage from an e-book without stable pagination. . . .
If a sentence in parentheses follows a sentence, place a period before the closing parenthesis:
I went to an exhibit at Vito Schnabel's gallery. (Vito is . . .
Insert a comma between the page range and DOI. For an example, see our post on citing a paginated journal that appears online. . . .
Published 30 December 2019
Which inanimate nouns, if any, can be made possessive by adding ’s?
The opinions on this question vary widely, ranging from a belief that virtually . . .
Published 27 December 2019
Although publishers often insert a thin space between single and double quotation marks to make the text easier to read, writers do not need to be concerned . . .
Published 26 December 2019
In prose, style a transliterated title the same way you would style the title in English.
In the following example, the transliterated title A fidler afn . . .
Published 16 December 2019
Some works render dialogue without enclosing it in punctuation that would distinguish it from the surrounding text. Treat such dialogue as you would treat any quoted material: . . .
Published 12 December 2019
List the full name of each person and provide the suffix after the last name of the person to whom it belongs. In MLA style, the suffix . . .
Published 14 November 2019
For those wordsmiths and linguaphiles among us, there seems no more fitting way to celebrate All Hallows' Eve than with a tribute to the most "frightening" of . . .
Published 31 October 2019
No. Sentences in a block quotation cannot be reversed because, as the MLA Handbook notes, "[a] quotation should never be presented in a . . .
Published 21 October 2019
