Cite-Me

Create properly formatted MLA citations, suitable for use in a bibliography, works cited, etc.

Usage

Add 'cite-me' to your Gemfile or gem install cite-me

In your code, create a new instance of Cite_Me cite = Cite_Me.new

You can now build a hash of options to pass to it:

   options = { source_type: 'book',
            authors: ['Smith, Jacob'],
              title: 'The Art of Writing Code',
city_of_publication: '',
          publisher: 'Smith, Inc.',
year_of_publication: '',
             medium: 'Print'}

Now, simply call cite.generate_citation(options) and it will return a propery formatted MLA citation.

You can also pass in an ActiveRecord Object and it will return a proper citation. Example:

source = Source.first
c = Cite_Me.new
c.generate_citation source

Please note that the columns on the passed object must match up with those in the hashes on this page (title, city_of_publication, etc.).

Possible for source_type currently include: book magazine web

Each of these accepts options that make sense for that specific source_type of medium:

Book

    options = { source_type: 'book',
             authors: ['Smith, Jacob'],
               title: 'The Art of Writing Code',
 city_of_publication: '',
           publisher: 'Smith, Inc.',
 year_of_publication: '',
              medium: 'Print'}

Magazine

    options = { source_type: 'magazine',
             authors: ['Jacob Smith'],
    title_of_article: 'Fishing redefined',
 title_of_periodical: 'Fishes-R-Us',
    publication_date: '10 October 1992',
               pages: '1-4',
              medium: 'Print'} `

Web

     options = { source_type: 'web',
              authors: 'John A. Doe',
         name_of_site: 'Starbucks',
 name_of_organization: 'Time',
     date_of_creation: '10 Oct 1992',
       date_of_access: '14 Feb 2014' }

Notes

You may either pass a string to :author or an array of strings to :authors

It will properly detect if it is already in Last Name, First Name order and not rearrange them. It also has support for middle initials being used.