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And what is MLA format?
Globetrotters.us can you give an example of what you are thinking of for a variable. I think it is a good idea but wonder how it might be applied.
My books are packed, so I may be a little off. MLA is the standard that college students are taught to use to cite their sources in college papers. http://www.mla.org/style
Its a little different depending what you cite, but a Book would be title, author, publisher and page (or something very close). They define it down to what is capitolized, and there the commas go. I think a web page is web page title, URL and date. The date is important because web pages are dynamic.
The MLA format ensures consistency. Personally, I don't use MLA format in my waymarks because I can't remember the exact details. I do try to imclude the elements of citing the source.
If the system auto created the citation from the variables and literals, I would expect it to go like
citation **book (from pulldown)** by Patricia Schultz **date (derived from book)**, **page(variable)**