You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. In fairness to the Modern Language Association and other makers of popular academic style guides ...

Most sources you come across for will follow the basic structure for an MLA citation. Even sources you might think are unusual, like a pamphlet, a magazine advertisement, or a message posted to a ...

Learning how to conduct accurate, discipline-specific academic research can feel daunting at first. But, with a solid understanding of the reasoning behind why we use academic citations coupled with ...

I'm writing a paper on several poems by a single poet, all of which are contained in a single text. I know the MLA guidelines for parenthetical citation with page numbers, but how do I work line ...

Citations function to give proper credit to the authors and works that have shaped your research and writing. Citations help readers understand how your own statements stand in relation to research or ...

Let's say you need to cite a dictionary definition (we'll use "hendecasyllabe", just for argument's sake). Pretty straight forward: note the source somehow in context ...