In my former life, one in which the sermons of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes seemed inestimably important, the Modern Language Association's Handbook for Writers of Research Papers was my secular citation ...

Margins should be set to 1 inch on all sides. All text should be double-spaced. Text should be in a legible, 12 pt. font (Times New Roman is preferred by many instructors). Page numbers should be in ...

A s the fall term begins, the shelves of college bookstores across the country are piled with a slim new edition of the MLA Handbook, standard-bearer of MLA style, the most widely used form of ...

It has been the summer of Hamilton in my house. Ever since we saw the numbers performed for the Tony Awards, my daughters have had the cast album on repeat. The 13-year-old read much of Ron Chernow’s ...

MLA, which stands for Modern Language Association format, may be used for various forms of writing. Since texts are increasingly digitized, and the same material may be accessed from several sources, ...

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 ...