Today a bit of hard-won wisdom on MLA-style citation with LaTeX. I want to cite the introduction to an edition, by the editor. Below is the BibTex entry for Wyn Kelley’s introduction to Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno.
@INCOLLECTION{KelleyBenitoIntro2006,
options = {useauthor=false},
editor = {Kelley, Wyn},
title = {An Introduction to \textit{Benito Cereno}},
booktitle = {Benito Cereno \rm{(1855), by Herman Melville}},
bookauthor = {Melville, Herman},
publisher = {Bedford/St. Martins},
year = {2006},
pages = {5--35},
address = {New York},
}
Though book title is a cluge, when processed with James Clawson’s BibLaTeX MLA, it WORKS.
What about
@suppbook{hobsbawm98,
author = {Eric Hobsbawm},
title = {Introduction},
bookauthor = {Karl Marx and Frederick Engels},
booktitle = {The Communist Manifesto},
publisher = {Verso},
location = {New York},
year = {1998},
}
The result is
Hobsbawm, Eric. “Introduction”. The Communist
Manifesto. By Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.
New York: Verso, 1998. Print.
(“The Communist Manifesto” in italics)