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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<style xmlns="http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl" class="in-text" xml:lang="en">
+  <info>
+    <title>Modern Language Association (italic)</title>
+    <id>http://www.zotero.org/styles/mla-italic</id>
+    <link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/mla"/>
+    <author>
+      <name>Simon Kornblith</name>
+      <email>simon@simonster.com</email>
+    </author>
+    <contributor>
+      <name> modified by Christian Werthschulte</name>
+      <email>Christian.Werthschulte@rub.de</email>
+    </contributor>
+    <category term="generic-base"/>
+    <category term="author-date"/>
+    <updated></updated>
+  </info>
+  <macro name="editor-translator">
+    <names variable="editor translator" delimiter=". ">
+      <label form="verb-short" text-case="capitalize-first" suffix=". "/>
+      <name and="symbol" delimiter=", "/>
+    </names>
+  </macro>
+  <macro name="author">
+    <names variable="author">
+      <name name-as-sort-order="first" and="text" sort-separator=", "
+        delimiter=", " delimiter-precedes-last="always"/>
+      <label form="short" prefix=", " suffix="."/>
+      <substitute>
+        <names variable="editor"/>
+        <names variable="translator"/>
+        <text macro="title"/>
+      </substitute>
+    </names>
+  </macro>
+  <macro name="author-short">
+    <names variable="author">
+      <name form="short" and="symbol" delimiter=", " initialize-with=". "/>
+      <substitute>
+        <names variable="editor"/>
+        <names variable="translator"/>
+        <text macro="title-short"/>
+      </substitute>
+    </names>
+  </macro>
+  <macro name="access">
+    <group delimiter=" ">
+      <date variable="accessed">
+        <date-part name="day" suffix=" "/>
+        <date-part name="month" form="short" include-period="true" suffix=" "/>
+        <date-part name="year"/>
+      </date>
+      <text variable="URL" prefix="&lt;" suffix="&gt;"/>
+    </group>
+  </macro>
+  <macro name="title">
+    <choose>
+      <if type="book">
+        <text variable="title" font-style="italic"/>
+      </if>
+      <else>
+        <text variable="title" quotes="true"/>
+      </else>
+    </choose>
+  </macro>
+  <macro name="title-short">
+    <choose>
+      <if type="book">
+        <text variable="title" form="short" font-style="italic"/>
+      </if>
+      <else>
+        <text variable="title" form="short" quotes="true"/>
+      </else>
+    </choose>
+  </macro>
+  <macro name="publisher-year">
+    <group delimiter=", ">
+      <group delimiter=": ">
+        <text variable="publisher-place"/>
+        <text variable="publisher"/>
+      </group>
+      <date variable="issued">
+        <date-part name="year"/>
+      </date>
+    </group>
+  </macro>
+  <citation>
+    <option name="et-al-min" value="4"/>
+    <option name="et-al-use-first" value="1"/>
+    <option name="disambiguate-add-names" value="true"/>
+    <option name="disambiguate-add-givenname" value="true"/>
+    <layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
+      <group delimiter=" ">
+        <choose>
+          <if variable="author editor translator" match="any">
+            <group delimiter=", ">
+              <text macro="author-short"/>
+              <choose>
+                <if disambiguate="true">
+                  <text macro="title-short"/>
+                </if>
+              </choose>
+            </group>
+          </if>
+          <else>
+            <text macro="title-short"/>
+          </else>
+        </choose>
+        <text variable="locator"/>
+      </group>
+    </layout>
+  </citation>
+  <bibliography>
+    <option name="hanging-indent" value="true"/>
+    <option name="et-al-min" value="4"/>
+    <option name="et-al-use-first" value="1"/>
+    <option name="line-spacing" value="2"/>
+    <option name="subsequent-author-substitute" value="---"/>
+    <sort>
+      <key macro="author"/>
+      <key variable="title"/>
+    </sort>
+    <layout>
+      <text macro="author" suffix="."/>
+      <text macro="title" prefix=" " suffix="."/>
+      <choose>
+        <if type="book">
+          <text macro="editor-translator" prefix=" " suffix="."/>
+          <text macro="publisher-year"  prefix=" " suffix="."/>
+        </if>
+        <else-if type="chapter">
+          <group class="container">
+            <text variable="container-title" font-style="italic" prefix=" " suffix="."/>
+            <text macro="editor-translator" prefix=" " suffix="."/>
+            <text macro="publisher-year"  prefix=" " suffix="."/>
+          </group>
+          <text variable="page" prefix=" " suffix="."/>
+        </else-if>
+        <else>
+          <group class="container" prefix=" " suffix="." delimiter=": ">
+            <group delimiter=" ">
+              <text macro="editor-translator" suffix="."/>
+              <text variable="container-title" font-style="italic"/>
+              <choose>
+                <if type="article-journal">
+                  <group delimiter=" ">
+                    <group delimiter=".">
+                      <text variable="volume"/>
+                      <text variable="issue"/>
+                    </group>
+                    <date variable="issued" prefix="(" suffix=")">
+                      <date-part name="year"/>
+                    </date>
+                  </group>
+                </if>
+                <else>
+                  <date variable="issued">
+                    <date-part name="day" suffix=" "/>
+                    <date-part name="month" form="short" include-period="true" suffix=" "/>
+                    <date-part name="year"/>
+                  </date>
+                </else>
+              </choose>
+            </group>
+            <text variable="page"/>
+          </group>
+        </else>
+      </choose>
+      <text prefix=" " suffix="." macro="access"/>
+    </layout>
+  </bibliography>
+</style>