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If the last element of a works-cited-list entry is a URL ending in a question mark, a period should follow the URL: Krugman, Paul. “Bubble, Bubble, Fraud and Trouble.” The New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/opinion/bitcoin-bubble-fraud.html?. Note, however, that the rule differs for the title of a work ending in a question mark or exclamation . . .
Published 11 May 2018
If you are citing multiple works by the same author from a collection that includes contributions by other authors, create a works-cited-list entry for each work you are citing: Works Cited Milton, John. Areopagitica. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, edited by E. Talbot Donaldson et al., 4th ed., vol. 1, W. W. Norton, 1979, pp. 1399-1409. . . .
Published 8 May 2018
When you discuss or quote from a product label or packaging information, you do not generally need to create a works-cited-list entry. You can provide all necessary details in your prose: Food-and-beverage packaging frequently touts a product’s healthy qualities. For example, a package produced in 2013 for Yogi Green Tea Super Antioxidant—a tea sold by . . .
Published 4 May 2018
If you are citing a work that has been published with a new title, list the title of the version you are citing in your works-cited-list entry. If it is important for your reader to know the original title, provide the information in an endnote or in your prose.
Published 2 May 2018
It’s not wrong to list the author exactly as it appears, so you could list “The Editors of Britannica” as the author.
Published 2 May 2018
To cite an artwork from an exhibit, follow the MLA template of core elements. Provide the name of the artist as the author and the title of the work. List the exhibit’s name as the title of the container, followed by the exhibit’s opening and closing dates. Then specify the place where the exhibit was held, . . .
Published 1 May 2018
Mention the author of the section you are citing in a signal phrase. For clarity, you might indicate the name of the section in your prose, especially if an author writes more than one section: In “Faculty Members, Accommodation, and Access in Higher Education,” Rosemary Garland-Thomson writes, in the section The Changing Profession: “Accommodating . . .
Published 30 April 2018
To cite a virtual reality experience on an app like Google Expeditions, follow the MLA template of core elements. Begin with the experience’s author. Then include the title of the experience as the title of your source, followed by the name and publisher of the app. If a publication date is not listed, include the date . . .
Published 28 April 2018
Writers sometimes need to cite anonymous sources with identical titles, such as articles in reference works. Since in MLA style works without authors are cited parenthetically by title, you need to provide additional information in your in-text citation to distinguish the sources. For example, let’s say you have in your works-cited list two articles without . . .
Published 27 April 2018
You can cite an essay from one volume of a multivolume work when the volume is identified by a date range in any one of the ways shown in our previous post on citing essays in multivolume works. Let’s say you want to cite The Essays of Virginia Woolf, volume 5, which is identified by . . .
Published 26 April 2018
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