Q. Do you include question marks in article title citations?

Yes. If an article or other source has punctuation included in its name, that will carry over into your citation.

You'll also keep the punctuation if you're mentioning the title narratively. e.g. The first Discworld novel I read was Guards! Guards! when I was in high school. Avoid doubling up punctuation at the end of the sentence.

MLA Examples

Title ends with a question or exclamation mark: Don't add a period

Albee, Edward. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Signet, 1983.

Pratchett, Terry. Guards! Guards! HarperTorch, 2001.

Willmott, Chris, and John Bryant. “Genomics Is Here: What Can We Do with It, and What Ethical Issues Has It Brought along for the Ride?” New Bioethics, vol. 29, no. 1, Mar. 2023, pp. 1–9. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1080/20502877.2023.2180839.

Question mark in the middle of the title: Add period at the end like normal

Cooks, Eric J., et al. “What Did the Pandemic Teach Us about Effective Health Communication? Unpacking the COVID-19 Infodemic.” BMC Public Health, vol. 22, no. 1, Dec. 2022, pp. 1–14. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14707-3.

APA Examples

Title ends with a question or exclamation mark: Don't add a period

Albee, E. (1983). Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Signet.

Pratchett, T. (2001). Guards! Guards! HarperTorch.

Willmott, C., & Bryant, J. (2023). Genomics is here: What can we do with it, and what ethical issues has it brought along for the ride? New Bioethics, 29(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/20502877.2023.2180839

Question mark in the middle of the title: Add period at the end like normal

Cooks, E. J., Vilaro, M. J., Dyal, B. W., Wang, S., Mertens, G., Raisa, A., Kim, B., Campbell-Salome, G., Wilkie, D. J., Odedina, F., Johnson-Mallard, V., Yao, Y., & Krieger, J. L. (2022). What did the pandemic teach us about effective health communication? Unpacking the COVID-19 infodemic. BMC Public Health, 22(1), 1–14. https://doi-org.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/10.1186/s12889-022-14707-3