Proper citations for Journals

Kurt Witzig
Kurt Witzig Member Posts: 2 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

It is my understanding that the MLA Citation style should look like this example:
 
Electronic Scholarly Journal Article (From a Database)
Herold, Niels. "Pedagogy, Hamlet, and the Manufacture of Wonder." Shakespeare Quarterly 46.2 (1995):125-134. JSTOR. Web. 31 Dec. 2009

 

In Logos 4 I select MLA citation style.  I then copy from a theological journal.  And it never gives the citation style shown above.  There is no author or title of the article.  Just the journal information itself.  In otherwords - basically useless. Why is this?  Is the answer that Logos 4 actually does not do this?  How can that be?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • Mark Barnes
    Mark Barnes Member Posts: 15,432 ✭✭✭

     Is the answer that Logos 4 actually does not do this?

    Logos does do that, but only for resources that support it. Sadly, most journals (and most dictionaries) don't.

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  • Kurt Witzig
    Kurt Witzig Member Posts: 2 ✭✭

    Thanks for the quick reply.  Sounds like the problem is with Galaxie Software (which markets the theological journals).

     

  • Mark Barnes
    Mark Barnes Member Posts: 15,432 ✭✭✭

    Yes, it is their responsibility. To be fair, the feature hasn't always been there, so many of the journals were produced before that time. But in a newer journal published by Logos, it does work. A random example:

    Hunt, Stephen. "Deliverance: The Evolution of a Doctrine". Themelios: Volume 21, No. 1, October 1995. United Kingdom: The Gospel Coalition, 1995.

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