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If you are citing an edition that contains two versions of a single work, such as a No Fear edition of one of Shakespeare's plays, which . . .
Published 13 January 2020
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
Films are collaborative works, so how you cite them depends on the focus of your discussion. If you are focusing on the director's choices, begin your . . .
Published 6 December 2019
Emojis do not need to be included in the titles of tweets. If the emoji is important to the meaning of the tweet, you should describe the . . .
Published 29 October 2019
Whether the abbreviation etc., meaning "and so forth," should be capitalized in a title depends on its location in the title.
In our publications, we . . .
Published 20 September 2019
As the MLA Handbook notes, titles should be alphabetized in works-cited lists "letter by letter, ignoring any initial A, An, . . .
Published 13 September 2019
Many works of art, especially older ones, were not given formal titles by their creators or were given one that is no longer known and thus have . . .
Names of earthworks, like names of buildings, should not be italicized:
We took a trip to see the Great Serpent Mound.
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Use whichever method will be most useful to your reader. If you are citing a report, for example, and there is only one report listed by title, . . .
If you are citing an untitled poem known only by its number, a generic description of the poem can be substituted for the title in the works- . . .