MLA Anthology Citation in Word 2007

[Twigg]

Is it possible to use Word 2007's built-in citation feature to cite a work in
an anthology with the proper MLA formatting for a Works Cited list? This
should be formatted as follows: (1) author of the selected work, (2) title of
the selected work, (3) title of the anthology, (4) name of the editor
preceded by "Ed.", (5) publication details, and (6) the pages in the
anthology where the selection appears.
Again, my question is if there's a way to get all that information into the
Word 2007 citation formatting tool.

 

[Yves Dhondt]

The answer is certainly yes.

The question on how easy it is to do is something totally different. The
'correct' way would be to extend the XSL file to support entries of the type
'Anthology'. But that would be a lot of XML/XSL programming work, which
probably isn't what you are looking after.

Have you considered entering the data as a 'Book Section' source? The
following entry
Type of Source: Book Section
Author: TheAuthor
Title: ThePartTitle
Book Title: TheBookTitle
Editor: TheEditor
Year: 2010
City: TheCity
Publisher: ThePublisher
Pages: 50-62

returns

TheAuthor. "ThePartTitle." TheBookTitle. Ed. TheEditor. TheCity:
ThePublisher, 2010. 50-62.

which seems to be pretty close to what you want.

Yves

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

"Book Section" seems simply to be Word's cover term for what may have
different labels in different style guides. Chicago would call it
"Chapter in a book."