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• I use MLA and Chicago, but the "{:original-date:} workaround doesn't seem to have been implemented for MLA. Any chance of getting this done for MLA? In Chicago, this original-date fix works relatively well for books, but not for book sections or j…

  in Original Date of Publication Comment by euj March 16, 2017
• thanks very much, that worked. Look forward to the proper fix in future versions.

  in Translator field not showing up in MLA style Comment by euj April 6, 2011
• Yes, could you tell me how to hack the style? I don't seem to have an issue with the Editor field; it's just the translator that disappears when I output the item. thanks very much

  in Translator field not showing up in MLA style Comment by euj April 5, 2011
• I look forward to this feature being added too. But just wanted to advocate (and remind) for original publication information to be added to MLA style as well. The examples used by most people in this discussion have been in Chicago and APA style,…

  in Original Date of Publication Comment by euj September 2, 2010
• Hi, thanks for inserting the Book Author field into the Book Section item type, much appreciated. But even when this field is filled in, it is not outputting in MLA style. The Book Author field simply disappears when I create the bibliography. …

  in Introduction by Comment by euj September 2, 2010
• Thanks for adding the ticket. I'd just like to add that the original publication field is required not just for books but also journal articles and book sections. e.g. Novalis. "On Goethe." 1798. _Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics_. Ed. J…

  in Field to add: Origyear Comment by euj August 14, 2008
• This is how the edition information should appear in MLA style: Wollen, Peter. _Signs and Meaning in the Cinema_. Expanded ed. London: British Film Institute, 1998. or Cosgrove, Denis. _Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape_. New ed…

  in MLA - edition field Comment by euj August 14, 2008
• Thanks, that sounds helpful. Good to know that this is being sorted out.

  in Introduction by Comment by euj February 10, 2008
• I'd like to second this request. Would it be possible to allow toggling between italics and underlining? I believe the MLA Handbook expressly permits both (the preference for underlining seems to be a vestige of the fact that the MLA style was dev…

  in MLA tweak? underline/italics Comment by euj February 10, 2008
• Thanks for the fix. There's one more tweak needed with the translation field in MLA -- the Translator credit appears in the wrong place for a Book Section item. What I want is this: Lyotard, Jean-Francois. “Acinema.” Trans. Paisley Livingsto…

  in translator field missing in MLA bibliography output Comment by euj February 10, 2008
• Sorry, should have mentioned that I can't get the Translator to appear for a Journal Article item type. The Translator field comes up fine in the Book item type. An example -- I get this: Derrida, Jacques. “Telepathy.” _Oxford Literary Revie…

  in translator field missing in MLA bibliography output Comment by euj January 26, 2008
• I have this problem as well. I previewed the citation in the Zotero Preview Pane (chrome://zotero/content/tools/cslpreview.xul), and it looks like the translator's name appears fine in some of the Chicago styles, but not in MLA or in Chicago (…

  in translator field missing in MLA bibliography output Comment by euj January 26, 2008
• I'd like to second the request for an 'Introduction by' feature. I use MLA, and the way that you would cite a book introduction is as follows: Dinnage, Rosemary. Introduction to _Memoirs of my Nervous Illness_. By Daniel Paul Schreber. New York: …

  in Introduction by Comment by euj January 26, 2008