Hi Ella,

Good question! We explain more about quoting dialogue here. Use the format shown there if you’re quoting an exchange with lines from more than one character. If you’re just quoting an individual line, you can integrate it into your text in the same way as you would any other quote (as long as you make sure to specify which character is speaking).

Thanks!

Hi Eulalie,

Yes, MLA recommends shortening long titles in in-text citations, and this includes titles of TV episodes. MLA suggests shortening titles to the initial noun phrase, omitting any articles (“a/an” or “the”), e.g. shortening “The Principle of Restricted Choice” to “Principle.”

Hi Leyla,

In that case you can simply write them in your Works Cited entry with “and” in between, e.g. “created by John Smith and David Jones, season 3 …” If there are three or more authors, use “et al.”, e.g. “created by John Smith et al., season 3 …”

Hi Rebecca,

You can use either, depending on what you think will be most useful to the reader. There’s no strict rule about this; either approach, or a mix of both approaches, is fine.

Hi Anna,

Yes, you’d generally list different episodes separately, unless you were just making a more general reference to the whole series without discussing individual episodes.

Sources in an MLA Works Cited list are always ordered alphabetically by the first element of the entry, rather than grouped together manually. You could ensure that all the episodes you cite are grouped together by starting all the entries with, for example, the name of the TV show’s creator—though this still wouldn’t ensure they were in chronological order, since they’d be ordered within that by episode title. In general, don’t worry too much if your Works Cited list looks untidy because of quirks like this though.