BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Citations and References in MLA Format

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I've been searching the internet for hours trying to figure out how to configure BibTeX to use MLA format, but this seems impossible. Is there anyway to get BibTeX to use the MLA format?

[localghost]

I don't know how to do this with BibTeX. Probably by generating a custom BibTeX style file by custom-bib and its tool »makebst«.

With the biblatex-mla style for biblatex in conjunction with Biber (BibTeX replacement) there seems to be an easy method to get citations and references in MLF format.

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\documentclass[11pt,american]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[
  backend=biber,
  style=mla
]{biblatex}

\defbibheading{bibliography}{\section*{Bibliography}} 
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib} % Replace with your own bibliography file(s)

\begin{document}
This is a citation \cite{knuth:ct:a}. Another citation \cite{companion}.

\printbibliography
\end{document}

The file "biblatex-examples.bib" is shipped with the biblatex package. So the above example should run on your system. Note that you need the following steps to get everything right (assumed that the above code is saved as "sample.tex").

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pdflatex sample
biber sample
pdflatex sample
pdflatex sample

These steps can certainly be done by your editor (and even automated) . Note that you have to configure your editor for the use of Biber.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten