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As the MLA Handbook explains, in some cases, you may omit the name of a publisher from your works-cited-list entry—for example, if you are citing a source from a Web site with basically the same name as that of its publisher (42): Burns, Shauntee. “Finding Wonder Women at the Library: Online Biographies and Encyclopedias.” New York . . .
Published 17 September 2018
References in a dissertation should be in a consistent style (e.g., MLA) and location (at the end of each chapter or at the end of the work). If your published article uses a different reference style, convert the references. If your dissertation contains one reference list at the end, integrate the citations into that list. . . .
Published 27 August 2018
If you are citing a chapter of a book from a novel or monograph, create an entry for the book as a whole and list the book’s DOI in the “Location” slot, since in MLA style, chapters from these types of works are not cited individually. If you wish to include a DOI for a chapter . . .
Published 23 August 2018
Like other professional titles, military ranks are omitted before authors’ names in entries and when the authors are mentioned in prose, but you may indicate an author’s rank in a description: William C. Westmoreland, a former United States Army general, describes his experiences in Vietnam in A Soldier Reports.
Published 14 August 2018
Yes. By convention, the publisher’s name—if known—is generally given for a book, even if it is the same as the title of the book.
Published 19 July 2018
To cite ephemera from a museum, follow the MLA template of core elements. The works-cited-list entry below is for a nineteenth-century cigarette trading card shown on the Web site of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. The Web site does not indicate the name of the card’s creator or its title, so the . . .
Published 17 July 2018
No. If you cite an image from a database, your works-cited-list entry should only provide the information you are given.
Published 10 July 2018
If you’re documenting an entire Web site or Web project, provide a date range in your works-cited-list entry when the Web site provides one: Centre for Editing Lives and Letters. U College London, 2003-14, www.livesandletters.ac.uk/. If the Web site provides more than one date, provide the date that is most useful. In the example . . .
Published 5 July 2018
To cite dialogue spoken by a character in a video game, transcribe the words you hear or copy the quote from the text box displaying it and enclose the words in double quotation marks. Since there are no markers indicating where in the video the dialogue appears, it can be helpful to give a general . . .
Published 26 June 2018
You should always create works-cited-list entries for works that you quote from, paraphrase, or substantively discuss. Thus you may need to create an entry for an entire Web site—for instance, if you are discussing its home page or if you are providing a detailed discussion of the site’s history: Grove Music Online. Oxford UP, 2018, . . .
Published 19 June 2018
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