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,… Read More
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 are given in… Read More
Yes, capitalize articles (a, an, the) at the start of titles and subtitles in English: The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family A Sense of Things:… Read More
It depends. In the following example, commas are used to set off the by phrase because the phrase is not integral to the meaning of… Read More
It depends. MLA style minimizes the use of abbreviations in prose, but if in certain contexts the abbreviation is more common than the spelled out… Read More
The Homeric hymns refer to poems that were once attributed, mistakenly, to the ancient Greek poet Homer. They are Homeric only in the sense that… Read More
The MLA Handbook offers suggestions for including information about sources used in digital projects (127–28). If you are unable to include a list of works cited… Read More
Yes. Student writers should place the titles of individual tales in quotation marks. This follows from the MLA Handbook’s general guideline for the styling of titles:… Read More
A preposition that is not at the start or end of a title should be lowercased, no matter how many words compose it and no… Read More
To cite an online lesson, follow the MLA format template. List the name of the instructor in the “Author” slot, the title of the lesson… Read More