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How to cite an online lecture in MLA?

TeX - LaTeX Asked by George Tian on December 23, 2020

I’m using biblatex-mla to cite in MLA style, and I need to cite what a lecturer said in an online lecture. This lecture was conducted through Zoom, and there is no URL as such. I have read the documentation, but there is no mention of how to cite such a source.

How should I cite an online lecture?

One Answer

I'd have said, use @misc and add fields so that things look OK, but there is a small issue with @misc entries in mla-new at the moment (https://github.com/jmclawson/biblatex-mla/issues/23), so I suggest you take @online.

The following seems to give acceptable results

documentclass[american]{article}
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{babel}
usepackage{csquotes}

usepackage[style=mla-new, backend=biber]{biblatex}


begin{filecontents}{jobname.bib}
@online{elk,
  author    = {Anne Elk},
  title     = {Lecture on a Theory on Brontosauruses},
  date      = {1972-11-16},
  publisher = {University of Python},
  location  = {Monty},
  note      = {Online lecture},
}
end{filecontents}
addbibresource{jobname.bib}
addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}


begin{document}
Lorem autocite{sigfridsson}
ipsum autocite{elk}
printbibliography
end{document}

Elk, Anne. “Lecture on a Theory on Brontosauruses.” U of Python, Monty, 16 Nov. 1972, Online lecture.

If the recording of the lecture is available via some route, you may want to include the relevant information in the note field as well.

Correct answer by moewe on December 23, 2020

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