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 2nd edition of the Manual and the 6th edition of the Handbook.

Installation:
To install the style files:
1. Locate your biblatex installation folder
	- In OS X, biblatex can be found at 
		~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/biblatex/
2. Place "mla.cbx" into the "cbx" folder there
3. Place "mla.bbx" into the "bbx" folder there


Usage:
1. Call the MLA style in your Latex document using the following two lines in your Latex preface:
		\usepackage[style=mla]{biblatex}
		\bibliography{<bibfile>}
	- (replace "<bibfile>" with the name of your .bib bibliography file)
	- to use MLA-style footnotes, use the "autocite=footnote" package option
2. Cite a text with \autocite{<key>}, cite a page with \autocite[<page>]{<key>}, and include a citational prenote---"'To be or not to be,' he wrote (Shakespeare qtd. in Brown 34)"---with \autocite[<prenote>][<page>]{<key>}.
	- (replace <key>, <page>, and <prenote> with their respective elements)
3. Before the end of your document, include the following line where you want your bibliography to appear:
		\printbibliography

Changelog for version 0.5 (final):
- introduction of firstlonghand and nofullnote package options
- changed approach of shorthand citations, defaulting to a "longhand" citation for the first citation
- introduction of usetranslator entry option
- fixed more stupid errors
- added support for video and booklet entrytypes
- added hyperlinks for citations with only page numbers
- added better support for useauthor and useeditor entry options
- added location to newspaper articles
- added edition ("version") to newspaper articles (ie, late, national, morning, etc.)
- added Spanish localization by Ivan Fernandez

Changelog for version 0.5 (beta):
 - introduction of MLA-style footnote citation support
 - fixed many more stupid errors (made since the beginning)
 - added support for book reviews and reference articles (use "review" entrytype and "inreference" entrytype, respectively)
 - tidied stylistic problems including erroneous punctuation before URLs (pointed out by Stephen Brumbaugh), stray spaces, a few doubled punctuations, etc.
 - added support for anonymous incollection works (for example, "Beowulf" in an English literature anthology shouldn't by default be referenced by the editor of that anthology)
 - added support for single-author collections (for example, a single poet's Collected Poems, with or without a named editor)
 - preliminary support for "video" entrytype
 - a few other things I'm forgetting

Changelog for version 0.4:
 - proper MLA-style crossref support (though Philipp Lehmann's warnings of the dangers of crossrefs in Bibtex files still hold: the parent will overwrite anything undefined in the child, like Title and Author)
 - fixed many stupid errors (made when converting to biblatex 0.7 in version 0.3)
 - introduced logic for idems, ibids, and prenotes (reduces chances of prenotes and ibids obscuring the actual author's name)
 - changed style name to biblatex-mla to fit in with everything else being lowercase
 - fixed compatibility with tex4ht (documents made with biblatex-mla can now be converted to OpenOffice format easily)
 - added support for Newspaper articles (use "article" type, set no volume and no issue number)
 - added access dates for online articles
 - got rid of a couple stray periods lurking in some places.
 - defined \fullcite command to provide examples of bibliographic citations (as seen in the new samples page)
 - added samples page

Changelog for version 0.3:
 - updated for compatibility to biblatex 0.7
 - incorporated improvements made by Jay Savage regarding URL presentation in Works Cited and the handling of edited books lacking authors
 - added support for the starred variants of \cite* and \autocite* for citing titles when the author is already named in the sentence (e.g., "Joyce says many fine things (Ulysses 34)," written as "Joyce says many fine things \autocite*[34]{citekey}").  This variation will basically just force skip the author's name in a citation.  If it's an author with multiple titles in the Works Cited, it will list the title and page; otherwise it will list just the page.
 - added functionality to use first name initials to differentiate among common surnames (option uniquename=init made available in biblatex 0.7) in citations
 - added localizations for "Ed. and trans.," etc.  I'm not sure how accurate these are yet, but it at least lets us have nicer Works Cited lists.  You'll see this change when works have a single person responsible for any combination of editing, translating, introducing, annotating, or providing commentary, forewards, or afterwards.  With this change, the person is listed only once, with the appropriate words before the name.
 - restyled the URL font in the Works Cited to be the same as the rest of the documents (as suggested by Jay Savage)
 - added support for \cite (same as \autocite) to be more supportive to existing programs that assume cite as the command used for references and to make conversion easier for newcomers who've already been using \cite
 - improved idem handling with boolean triggers
 - cleaned up macro names to make them easier to follow


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