biblatex-mla 0.5
For a long time, it seemed the worlds of Latex, Bibtex, and MLA-style citations and references were incompatible. Natbib, the most widely used package for styling citations and bibliographies, works well for the sciences, but not so well for humanities. Jurabib, designed for the humanities, seemed to be on its way to working well with MLA, but those who preferred MLA style's parenthetical citations faced bugs that were hard to track down; moreover, development on Jurabib has frozen at beta version 0.61.
Jurabib's mantle has been taken up by Biblatex, a dynamic package written in easy-to-follow macros. Biblatex ships with starter styles with the expectation that users will build upon these to suit the whims of different publishing houses. Using these styles as my starting point, I've defined MLA-format citation styles (defaults to inline, with footnote support added in 0.5) and reference (Works Cited) styles, making them available below.
- Download and install Biblatex version 0.7 (Don't forget to install etoolbox, too. Biblatex 0.7 requires it!)
- Download and install biblatex-mla-05.zip
- Definitions list not complete (
film,edited books, etc.) — definition list improved in 0.2, Added Newspaper articles in 0.4, Added Videos, Reviews, Inreference, and Booklet support in 0.5 - Localization efforts are currently stymied by my in-built support for (American-style) punctuation inside quotation marks.