OK, you're notating a blues in D -- that's D mixolydian. What's your key signature, the standard 2 sharps with an accidental for every C, or 1 sharp to reflect the mode?
Don't know any rule (I never do!), but I'd use 2 sharps because 1 sharp implies a tonic on G and would introduce confusion. Bartok got away with using non-standard key signatures, but most people don't attempt them.
This is, of course, quite a different thing from the minor key baroque pieces which lacked a flat in the key signature that we would think should be there. Some modern editors add that flat, others do not. And it was, indeed, the result of modal dorian practice carrying over into the baroque period. But it strikes me that this would not carry over into neo-modal practice. I look forward to the definitive answers.
John
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