Quick stupid question about citations. I have a document pulled from EEBO which was produced in 1553 (title page dated 1553, includes descriptions of an event in 1553.) EEBO lists it as 1533, which has to be a typo. Do I put the date as 1553 in my biblio without noting the error, or put in a note that EEBO's got the date wrong, in case someone ( Read more... )

This is my first post here, so I apologize if this is trivial or has been addressed before. I am very much a baby academic ( Read more... )

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Hi,

I've tried searching online, but is there a particular way (MLA if it exists) for conference proceedings published in a CDROM only?

Thanks!

If a British student quotes an American-spelled paper, is the protocol to use the American spelling, surreptitiously correct the spelling, use the American spelling followed by a [sic], or correct the spelling and indicate the correction somehow ( Read more... )

"Even in citations, print is the default no more. The seventh edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, released Tuesday, states that the Modern Language Association no longer recognizes print as the default medium, and suggests that the medium of publication should be included in each works cited entry."There will now be a short ( Read more... )

Hi,

In my bibliography, I have a short story in a short story collection:

E.M. Forster. 1987 [1971]. "The Other Boat". In Forster, E.M. 1987 [1971]. The Life to Come and Other Short Stories. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc: 166-197.

The story was written 1913-1958: should I put it in brackets like this:  [c. 1913-1958] or [c. 1913- ( Read more... )

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How would you cite Dr. Seuss in an academic article? Seuss, Dr. or Geisel, T.S.?

Thanks in advance

I am using some information from an archaeological investigation as part of the basis for my interpretation of the data I collected myself from material from the site. This information was obtained from a Masters thesis completed 8 years ago, and it doesn't appear that the author has published anything on the site material since. The paper in which ( Read more... )