Modern Language Association 9th edition

titleModern Language Association 9th edition
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summaryThis style adheres to the MLA 9th edition handbook. Follows the structure of references as outlined in the MLA Manual closely
rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License
updated2021-07-13T20:05:10+00:00
link (self)http://www.zotero.org/styles/modern-language-association
link (documentation)http://style.mla.org
author Sebastian Karcher
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Example Output

Inline citations

(Mares)
(Mares; Campbell and Pedersen; Ahlquist and Breunig; Isaacson)
(Mares; Ahlquist and Breunig; “CSL Search by Example”; Foderaro; Borges; Hancké et al.; Zelle et al.; Fenner et al.; Hawking)

Bibliography

Ahlquist, John S., and Christian Breunig. Country Clustering in Comparative Political Economy. MPIfG Discussion Paper, 09–5, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, 2009.
Borges, Jorge Luis. Selected Non-Fictions. Edited by Eliot Weinberger, Translated by Esther Allen et al., 3rd ed., vol. 1, Viking, 1999.
Campbell, John L., and Ove K. Pedersen. “The Varieties of Capitalism and Hybrid Success.” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 40, no. 3, Mar. 2007, pp. 307–32. Highwire 2.0, https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414006286542.
“CSL Search by Example.” Citation Style Editor, 2012, http://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/.
Fenner, Martin, et al. “A Data Citation Roadmap for Scholarly Data Repositories.” Scientific Data, vol. 6, no. 1, Apr. 2019, p. 28. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0031-8.
Foderaro, Lisa W. “Rooftop Greenhouse Will Boost City Farming.” New York Times, 6 Apr. 2012, p. A20.
Hancké, Bob, et al., editors. Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradiction, and Complementarities in the European Economy. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Hawking, Stephen. Properties of Expanding Universes. University of Cambridge, 15 Mar. 1966. www.repository.cam.ac.uk, https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.11283.
Isaacson, Walter. Steve Jobs. Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Mares, Isabela. “Firms and the Welfare State: When, Why, and How Does Social Policy Matter to Employers?” Varieties of Capitalism. The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, edited by Peter A. Hall and David Soskice, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 184–213.
Zelle, Rintze M., et al. Method for Acetate Consumption during Ethanolic Fermentation of Cellulosic Feedstocks. US20160265005A1, 15 Sept. 2016, https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160265005A1/en?inventor=rintze+zelle&oq=rintze+zelle.

Dependent Styles

Ostrava Journal of English Philology

CSL code

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