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Daiya Mitchell Daiya Mitchell is offline
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Default Is there an update that fixes the MLA reference citation?

Hi Bunny,

I think that blog post that Chris gave you has a comment from the person
in charge that they really wanted to get the format right, so this is a
huge oversight. But, I haven't seen anyone else make this complaint,
and MLA is pretty common--which makes me wonder if something might not
be quite set up right in your machine. That seems like a really big
blunder for them to make, and it would surprise me for it not to have
been caught along the way.

I don't have Word 2007 myself, so cannot give you any specific advice,
but maybe see if it works on another computer?

Anyhow, I don't think any updates are out yet.

younme6075 wrote:
Hi Chris,

Thank you for the two links they were helpful but still not what I am
looking for. I already know how to cite MLA but that template is useful
nonetheless. The blog had even more information. There was even a reply on
there from someone about one of the other formats not citing correctly.

What happens with MLA is: when you cite a reference in the body of the work
it cites just the author. It should cite the author and the page number.

Now I can go in a change each citation to reflect the page number but if the
program is designed to cite the reference I believe it should cite it
correctly. I believe this error is a huge oversight because every MLA
citation should include a page number is appropriate.

But again, thank you for your help.

Bunny