Comments on: Formatting dates in MLA style https://www.scribbr.com/mla/dates/ The checkpoint for your thesis Tue, 08 Mar 2022 08:30:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.2 By: Jack Caulfield https://www.scribbr.com/mla/dates/#comment-391571 Tue, 08 Mar 2022 08:30:42 +0000 https://www.scribbr.nl/?p=312157#comment-391571 In reply to John H..

Hi John,

I wasn’t familiar with this usage, but I see it’s commonly used in history to indicate that something happened at some point between two dates (as opposed to across that entire range of dates). There’s no specific mention of it in the MLA manual, but I don’t see any reason they’d object to it if used in a field where it’s a standard convention.

]]> By: John H. https://www.scribbr.com/mla/dates/#comment-391540 Tue, 08 Mar 2022 02:06:46 +0000 https://www.scribbr.nl/?p=312157#comment-391540 One type of entry that I see in books and articles on the Middle Ages is a date range expressed with an x or multiplication symbol (U+00D7), for example “Helisachar of Trier (d. 833×840)”. That usage makes sense intuitively, but I have no idea if there are specific guidelines for it. I can’t find anything, anywhere. Can you provide some insight? Is it approved by MLA?

]]> By: Jack Caulfield https://www.scribbr.com/mla/dates/#comment-379683 Mon, 13 Dec 2021 12:06:53 +0000 https://www.scribbr.nl/?p=312157#comment-379683 In reply to jenna J.

Hi Jenna,

When you cite multiple works by the same author, MLA advises distinguishing between them in your in-text citations by adding a shortened version of the article title to each citation. You can see how to do this here.

]]> By: jenna J https://www.scribbr.com/mla/dates/#comment-379104 Fri, 10 Dec 2021 05:55:10 +0000 https://www.scribbr.nl/?p=312157#comment-379104 How do I cite an article with the same author but different years in MLA?

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