Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Citing Translations (I made a mistake!)

Here's how to cite translations. (In F-block when Alex R asked if the author and translator went inside the same period a slight pinprick in the back of my head singled that I was heading into folly but I blundered ahead anyway. The pinprick nagged at me so I spent a few minutes digging around MLA format and I found this.)

Original author's last name, first name. Title of book in which the poem appears. Trans. Translator's first name Translator's last name. Publishing City: Publisher, Publication Date.
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Example
Dostoevsky, Feodor. Crime and Punishment. Trans. Jessie Coulsen. New York: Norton, 1964.
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All with a hanging indentation.

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