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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- . . .
If the title ends with a quotation mark, insert the colon between the quotation mark and the subtitle. In the first example below, the title consists of . . .
No. Omit the period, as shown in the example below:
“How Do I Cite a Map?” The MLA Style Center, Modern Language Association of America, . . .
Yes. The styling of titles should be consistent in your prose and in your works-cited list. Since, as the MLA Handbook notes, "[t]itles . . .