On Wednesday 05 December 2001 06:20 pm, you wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:22:22PM -0500, Evan DiBiase wrote:
> > My instructor wants the bibliography to be in the standard MLA style,
> > but wants the citations to be footnotes, starting with "1" on each page,
> > with the citation in them in the form of "Author pagenumber". Is this
> > possible? If so, how?
Starting with a 1 on each page is weird, especially for a short (20-30p)
paper. I've never seen it done, but someone here (not me) can tell you what
convoluted mess of LaTeX commands will do it.
The problem with using the mla package here is that your professor doesn't
really want mla style. He want's a strange mix of mla and profesor X-style.
Use the mla bst style for the bibliography. For the citations, just put your
cite commands in the footnotes. Maybe define a new command, for example (in
the preamble):
\newcommand{\mycite}[2]{\footnote{\cite[#1]{#2}}}
Use your new command like this:
\mycite{pagenum}{bibkey}
> I can't help, but I did have a question and comment.
>
> (1) Are you using the mla package? I just came across this last
> night, and wanted details on how to use it.
That package doesn't give you footnotes, though--at least, it doesn't give
you a special footnote cite command. Jurabib does, but it won't be mla.
> (2) MLA style tells you *not* to use footnotes. Of course, you
> can't tell your professor this. But according to the Chicago
> Style Manual, using footnotes for references are a publisher's
> nightmare. They also break up the flow of text.
Mmmm. Chicago says footnotes should be minimal, with the publisher kept in
mind. But the problem with refs in footnotes is not that its a publisher's
nightmare, but that it's a reader's nightmare (e.g., ibid for three or four
pages leaves you digging for the first reference). It's inline citations that
break the flow of text.
> Endnotes (or better yet, parenthetical references) are the
> preferred method for citations. I myself am trying to figure out
> how to do this.
In your preamble:
\usepackage{endnotes}
At the end of the document in TeX (red text)
\begingroup
\singlespacing
\parindent 0pt
\parskip 1ex
\def\endnotesize{\normalsize}
\theendnotes
\endgroup
...or something like that, depending on how you want your endnotes to look.
