: Typo correction when citing an external source Good evening, I'm in the process of writing a small research paper for my college and im facing the following dilemma. One of my sources has a

Good evening,

I'm in the process of writing a small research paper for my college and im facing the following dilemma.

One of my sources has a typo. More specifically instead of the word "Christians" the author wrote "christians" (lowercase C) which is wrong. Should i correct it or should i leave it as is?

I know that this is a minor mistake but in the future i will probably come across many other typos like this one and i would like to know.

PS. Im using MLA 8.

Thanks in advance.

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@Chiappetta298

What Mark Baker said in his answer is correct, but there is another option. If you want to correct the typos for clarification or add information for clarification, you can add text in square brackets []. In your case, here is an example:

[C]hristians

According to the English Oxford Living Dictionaries,

Square brackets (also called brackets, especially in American English) are mainly used to enclose words added by someone other than the original writer or speaker, typically in order to clarify the situation:

He [the police officer] canâ€™t prove they did it.

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