Upgrade StorageMLA 2008/09 Update!
Hello everyone...
First of all, let me just say bravo to the team behind this amazing software. I am using it along with EndNote X3 and it works wonders. Best of all... its completely free!!! Please keep it that way :)
Was just wondering when the MLA style would be updated for Zotero reflecting the citational changes proposed in MLA 2008 update?
First of all, let me just say bravo to the team behind this amazing software. I am using it along with EndNote X3 and it works wonders. Best of all... its completely free!!! Please keep it that way :)
Was just wondering when the MLA style would be updated for Zotero reflecting the citational changes proposed in MLA 2008 update?
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. 1845. Classic American Autobiographies. Ed. William L. Andrews and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Lib. of Amer., 2000. 267-368. Print.
Note the addition of the medium (print) after pages numbers towards the end.
* No More URLs! While website entries will still include authors, article names, and website names, when available, MLA no longer requires URLs. Writers are, however, encouraged to provide a URL if the citation information does not lead readers to easily find the source.
* Continuous Pagination? Who Cares? You no longer have to worry about whether scholarly publications employ continuous pagination or not. For all such entries, both volume and issue numbers are required, regardless of pagination.
* Publication Medium. Every entry receives a medium of publication marker. Most entries will be listed as Print or Web, but other possibilities include Performance, DVD, or TV. Most of these markers will appear at the end of entries; however, markers for Web sources are followed by the date of access.
* New Abbreviations. Many web source entries now require a publisher name, a date of publication, and/or page numbers. When no publisher name appears on the website, write N.p. for no publisher given. When sites omit a date of publication, write n.d. for no date. For online journals that appear only online (no print version) or on databases that do not provide pagination, write n. pag. for no pagination.
pasted from:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15/
Another website that lists some of the changes:
http://academics.byuh.edu/RWC/MLAupdate
MLA made a major revision to their format. For the BiblioBouts project, our pilot institution uses MLA and the librarians have asked that this style be updated to match the current standard.
Is it possible that this could get updated ASAP?
It would treat something as Web as soon as it has a doi or a URL.
Here is the problem - it seems like, in order for print Journals accesed online to be treated as web content (as MLA requires) the "include URL" box needs to be checked.
This does not include the other options (performance, DVD, etc.) but maybe that's OK for now?
<macro name="medium">
<choose>
<if variable="URL DOI" match="any">
<text value="Web">
</text>
</if>
<else>
<text value="Print">
</text>
</else>
</choose>
</macro>
check this example:
Berger, James D. and Helmut J. Schmidt. "Regulation of Macronuclear DNA Content in Paramecium Tetraurelia." The Journal of Cell Biology 76.1 (1978): 116-126. JSTOR. Web. 20 Nov. 2008.
this is a 30 year old print journal - but because you have accessed it through the Web, you cite it as a Web source. I'm not sure why they want to do that, but it is clear that they do. My thinking is that you'd never get an doi for an article you get out of the paper copy of a journal - that seems a reasonable assumption, no?
I have no idea how to get the JSTOR in there, though. Maybe use Repository, though that would screw up the archive entries maybe?
<choose>
<if variable="URL">
<text value="Web"/>
</if>
<else>
<text value="Print"/>
</else>
</choose>
Of course we would want to move these values to a locale. It also might make sense to include the medium as part of the "accessed" macro.
The real hard part comes when accommodating other media (broadcasts, video, etc.) especially since the medium string sometimes needs to wind up deeper (that is to say, earlier) in the citation and not just at the end. The addition of medium is a complete hash and clearly shows that the drafters were not thinking at all in terms of how software might need to represent the style programmatically.
"move these values to a locale" - not sure I'm following here, what exactly do you mean (this might be simple).
go here
http://gist.github.com/164283
download using the raw link on the top right.
Please report back test results and - those .csl savvy - suggested improvements.
please test.
at least no one has found an error.
So I've posted this now as
"Modern Language Association 2009"
http://www.zotero.org/styles/mla/dev?install=1
is the install link. Please post all errors here.
Note that the "Include URL of Paper Articles" option in the Export tab of the preferences needs to be enabled for this style to work correctly.
I've only tested this on 2.0 - that could be an issues - I don't know what the difference in functionality is.
The film that I tried citing is still not correct. It's still not putting the title first. AND it had "print" at the end of the record for some reason.
Also I cited a web site and it's not correct either. The title of the cite should be italicized, not in quotation marks.
I'm still testing and will let you know what else I find. Thanks for trying, though.
Go here
http://gist.github.com/209512
download the style using the Raw link at the top right and install by dragging to an open FF window.
What this should do: For films, print
_Title_. Dir. Firstnamedirector Lastnamedirector. Distributor, Date. Type.
Where Type is "Film" when the Recording Type field is empty and the content of the recording Type field otherwise.
It doesn't put the actors in and I don't think I can do that.
As for the Website - really? I found most of them in quotation marks in the guide. Can you link or quote something that addresses that?
Titel. Location: Publisher, Year.
As required, I just checked (and you can see for yourself when you hover over the MLA entry in the style repository).
Please check that your record is complete and that you are using the most up to date MLA.
If you absolutely can't find what's wrong, please export the offending record to RIS and paste the RIS here.
Can you try in the test panel here?
chrome://zotero/content/tools/csledit.xul
Can you paste one of the wrong citations here?
Just so that we're on the same page, here is what I get for a book citation
Vogel, David. Fluctuating Fortunes: The Political Power of Business in America. New York: Basic Books, 1988. Print.
Feedback appreciated.
http://wapo.st/fnOfGh