citations - 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 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.

Answer

The usual convention is to quote the source as is but add "(sic)" after the incorrect word to indicate that the error is in the source and is not a transcription error.

christians (sic)