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MLA-style citations and bibliographies using Biblatex
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Description: Biblatex-mla provides Biblatex support for references and citations in the style defined by the Modern Language Association (MLA). The style is a common standard for writers in the humanities and is outlined in the MLA Style Manual and the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. These files follow definitions for the 9th, 8th, and 7th editions of the MLA Handbook. Before using biblatex-mla, you will need to install Biblatex. Biblatex is commonly included with most installations of LaTeX, but it can also be found at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex

Managed Installation (recommended):

  1. Use whatever provided installer is packaged with your installation of LaTeX.
    • For instance, use the TeX Live Utility program or tlmgr from the command line.

Manual Installation:

  1. Locate your latex installation folder
    • In OS X, it can probably be found at ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/
  2. Create a new folder called "biblatex-mla" if there isn't already one there
  3. Place the biblatex-mla files into this folder

Usage:

  1. Call the MLA style in your Latex document using the following four lines in your Latex preface: \usepackage[american]{babel} \usepackage{csquotes} \usepackage[style=mla]{biblatex} \addbibresource{}
    • (replace "style=mla" with "style=mla7" if you'd prefer to use the style described in the older 7th edition of the handbook)
    • (replace "style=mla" with "style=mla-strict" if you'd prefer to avoid some
      attempted cleverness to apply transformations to entries, including publishers, URLs and eprint fields)
    • (replace "" with the name of your .bib bibliography file)
    • to use MLA-style footnotes (no longer well supported), use the "autocite=footnote" package option
  2. Cite a text with \autocite{}, cite a page with \autocite[]{}, and include a citational prenote---"'To be or not to be,' he wrote (Shakespeare qtd. in Brown 34)"---with \autocite[][]{}.
    • (replace , , and with their respective elements)
  3. Before the end of your document, include the following line where you want your bibliography to appear: \printbibliography

This material is subject to the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3. See https://ctan.org/license/lppl1.3 for the details of that license.