How to footnote or cite a source with a question mark or exclamation point in the title

How to footnote or cite a source with a question mark or exclamation point in the title

For a footnote, you do not give a comma after the title if there is end punctuation like a question mark or exclamation mark. Similarly, you do not give a period after the question mark or exclamation point in the title within a bibliography. 

Example:

bibliography         Smith, Donald. Absolom, Absolom! New York: Fortress, 2012.
footnote                Donald Smith, Absolom, Absolom! (New York: Fortress, 2012), 24.

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