Is there a way to cite TV Shows and Episodes with the MLA style?

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I’m afraid it’s impossible to achieve it with #cite(, form: “prose”) + CSL, because do_author is hard-coded by typst.

Instead, I managed to develop a CSL with a special #tv(<key>) function.

(At present, it only conforms to your citation format.)

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#let tv = cite.with(style: "television.csl")

- During the interaction between the characters in #tv(<show>), it becomes evident that…

- During the characters’ interaction, it becomes evident… #tv(<episode>, supplement: [00:10:24])

#let televisions = ```yaml
episode:
  type: video
  title: Title of Episode
  author:
    - Creator
    - Another contributor
  director: Director
  date: 2161
  note: Season 1, Episode 1.
  archive: Streaming Platform
  url: https://example.com
  parent:
    title: Title of TV Series
    author: Production company
show:
  type: video
  title: Title of Series
  author:
    - Creators
  date: 1999
```.text

#bibliography(
  (
    "ref.bib", // Your other citations
    bytes(televisions),
  ),
  style: "modern-language-association",
)
television.csl 
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<style xmlns="http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl" class="in-text" version="1.0">
  <info>
    <title>TV shows and episodes</title>
    <id>https://forum.typst.app/t/is-there-a-way-to-cite-tv-shows-and-episodes-with-the-mla-style/6522</id>
  </info>
  <macro name="video-episode">
    <text value="("/>
    <text variable="title" prefix="“" suffix=",” " />
    <text variable="locator" />
    <text value=")"/>
  </macro>
  <macro name="video-show">
    <text variable="title" prefix="“" suffix="”" />
  </macro>
  <citation>
    <layout>
      <choose>
        <!--
          Somehow, type="motion_picture" does not match videos with parents.
          https://github.com/typst/hayagriva/blob/799cfdcc5811894f62949a63b155878e2f30b879/src/csl/taxonomy.rs#L636
        -->
        <if type="broadcast">
          <text macro="video-episode"/>
        </if>
        <else-if type="motion_picture">
          <text macro="video-show"/>
        </else-if>
        <else>
          <text value="(Please paste the original CSL here)"/>
        </else>
      </choose>
    </layout>
  </citation>
  <bibliography>
    <layout>
      <text value="This CSL style is only intended for citations, not bibliography."/>
    </layout>
  </bibliography>
</style>
Why *.bib becomes *.yaml?

I switch from *.bib to the hayagriva *.yaml format, in order to make things simpler.

  • For *.bib, the entry type will be converted multiple times: @type in the file → biblatex::EntryType → hayagriva::EntryType → citationberg::Kind.

    For example, it looks like that @video → biblatex::EntryType::Unknown("video") → hayagriva::EntryType::Misc → citationberg::Kind::Document, which is ridiculous…

  • For *.yaml, it gets simplified as type: … in the file = hayagriva::EntryType → citationberg::Kind.

    For the same example, it is type: video = hayagriva::EntryType::Video → citationberg::Kind::MotionPicture.

Details can be found in How do I determine which type a legislation bibentry will have in CSL? - #2 by Y.D.X.

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