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MLA-style citations and bibliographies using Biblatex
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Citing non-print articles and books #2

Closed bookcasey closed 11 years ago

bookcasey commented 11 years ago

I would like to create a citations like these in BibTeX format:

Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I: Life of Lykurgus. Trans. Aubrey Stewart and George Long. Project Gutenberg, 2004. E-book.

Compton-Engle, Gwendolyn. Stolen Cloaks in Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae. Transactions of the American Philological Association 135.1, 2005: 163-176. PDF file.

Currently, using @book and @article, Print. is always appended.

I've tried using @misc but when I compile the citation does not appear in the PDF file, while a similar @book citation would (but with Print.).

jmclawson commented 11 years ago

Whenever you're citing an online source, include the URL to suppress the "Print" text.

I think I understand that you're citing a part of a book in the first example. Here's how I would cite these works, along with the corresponding output. Please let me know if any of these feel incorrect to you:

@inbook{plutarch,
    Author = {Plutarch},
    Booktitle = {Plutarch's Lives, Volume I},
    Title = {Life of Lykurgus},
    Translator = {Aubrey Stewart and George Long},
    Publisher = {Project Gutenberg},
    Date = {2004},
    URL = {http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm},
    Urldate = {2013-04-08}}

@article{engle,
    Author = {Gwendolyn Compton-Engle},
    Title = {Stolen Cloaks in Aristophanes' `Ecclesiazusae'},
    Journaltitle = {Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-- )},
    Volume = {135},
    Number = {1},
    Issue = {Spring},
    Date = {2005},
    Pages = {163-176},
    Eprint = {20054125},
    Eprinttype = {jstor},
    URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/20054125},
    Urldate = {2013-04-08}}

Plutarch. “Life of Lykurgus.” Plutarch’s Lives, Volume I. Trans. Aubrey Stewart and George Long. Project Gutenberg, 2004. Web. 8 Apr. 2013.

Compton-Engle, Gwendolyn. “Stolen Cloaks in Aristophanes’ ‘Ecclesiazusae’.” Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974– ) 135.1 (Spring 2005): 163–176. JSTOR. Web. 8 Apr. 2013.

(I've updated the @article entry so that you see the output I included below it.)

bookcasey commented 11 years ago

Thank you, Those citations look great, and the @article works like a charm, however, the @inbook citation does not appear. If I change @inbook to @article, it does although without including the publisher etc

jmclawson commented 11 years ago

Oops, you're right. I'm using an updated (prerelease) version of the files here at home, and it has support for @inbook. You should get the same effect by switching it to @incollection for now, but an updated version of my files should be released in the next month.

bookcasey commented 11 years ago

Great. That works for now. Thanks!