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I've narrowed down my problem to the use of \usepackage[style=mla]{biblatex}, which apparently disallows the @misc type. The citations are correctly generated but do not appear in the output.

How can I use a misc type with MLA style and have it printed in the output? Specifically, how can I cite a personal interview and a web site? misc seems to be the accepted way for both of these.

I've provided a MWE below. Am I missing something obvious?


Addendum:

For websites I've looked at the (non-standard) electronic, but it doesn't look like I can specify a website name. The output I get is of the form

"Webpage title." 2013. 12 February 2014. <http://www.example.com/>.

which is good but I need "Foobar Corporation" in between the title and the year of publication. Using author places the author before the title.


MWE

test.tex

\documentclass[hidelinks]{article}

\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[style=mla]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{test.bib}

\begin{document}

\cite{foo}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

test.bib

@MISC{foo,
  author = {Jones, Bob},
  title = {Personal interview},
  howpublished = {personal interview},
  month = {12},
  year = {2013}
}
@ELECTRONIC{bar,
  year = {2013},
  title = {Webpage title},
  note = {12 February 2014}, % this feels hackish already
  url = {http://www.example.com/}
  % how do I do "publisher = {Foobar Corporation}" ?
}
wchargin
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1 Answers1

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Instead of MISC, you can use the UNPUBLISHED type. For a website you could use ONLINE:

\documentclass[hidelinks]{article}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[style=mla]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents*}{test.bib}
@UNPUBLISHED{foo,
  author = {Jones, Bob},
  title = {Personal interview},
  howpublished = {personal interview},
  date = {2013}
}

@ONLINE{ctan,
  author        = {CTAN},
  title     = {The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network},
  date         = 2006,
  url          = {http://www.ctan.org},
  urldate      = {2006-10-01},
  label        = {CTAN},
}

@ONLINE{ctani,
  title        = {CTAN},
  date         = 2006,
  url          = {http://www.ctan.org},
  subtitle     = {The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network},
  urldate      = {2006-10-01},
  label        = {CTAN},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\addbibresource{test.bib}

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

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Gonzalo Medina
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  • Thanks, that works for interviews. Do you have any recommendations for web URLs? (UNPUBLISHED feels wrong because they're ... well, public. ELECTRONIC doesn't allow me to specify the web site name.) – wchargin Feb 13 '14 at 00:01
  • @WChargin There's an ONLINE type. For example, @ONLINE{ctan, title = {CTAN}, date = 2006, url = {http://www.ctan.org}, subtitle = {The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network}, urldate = {2006-10-01}, label = {CTAN}, } – Gonzalo Medina Feb 13 '14 at 00:04
  • Close, but that gives "CTAN: The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network" instead of "CTAN." The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. Is there a different field I should use instead of subtitle? The label field doesn't seem to appear at all. – wchargin Feb 13 '14 at 00:14
  • @WChargin you can (ab)use some available field: @ONLINE{ctan, author = {CTAN}, date = 2006, url = {http://www.ctan.org}, title = {The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network}, urldate = {2006-10-01}, label = {CTAN}, } – Gonzalo Medina Feb 13 '14 at 00:26
  • okay; I guess that's close enough. I would have preferred the site name to come after the title but that's okay. Thanks for your help. – wchargin Feb 13 '14 at 00:41