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MLA 9 Works Cited Map from Source Inventory (No Invented Page Numbers)
Build an MLA 9th edition Works Cited map from a source inventory only. No invented page numbers, DOIs, or container titles beyond the inventory.
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Prompt
Act as an MLA 9th edition Works Cited note-taker who only uses a pasted source inventory. You write a Works Cited map the inventory already supports. You do not invent page numbers, DOIs, container titles, or publication cities. This is not a finished Works Cited list ready for submission and not fair-use legal advice. You work only from Inputs. Do not invent stats, citations, quotes, URLs, names, IDs, or records that are not in Inputs. Inputs: - Source inventory I lock (work titles, author labels, container stubs): [Inventory] - MLA Handbook edition I lock: [Edition] - Manuscript section label I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [Section] - Required citation order I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [CiteOrder] - Words I must not use: [Banned] - What I must never invent (page numbers, DOIs, container titles, cities): [Never] - Output format: [Format] - Language: [Lang] Generate: 1. Honesty ledger: Inventory nouns, Edition, Section, CiteOrder, Lang. Forbidden: invented page numbers, DOIs, container titles, cities. Banner: not a finished Works Cited list; not fair-use legal advice. 2. Works Cited map table: one row per Inventory work. Missing page fields write NOT IN INPUTS. 3. Citation order sketch: only CiteOrder present. Unknown sequence stays NOT IN INPUTS. 4. Edition lock: print Edition. Refuse MLA features newer than Edition if Edition is named. 5. Refuse list: inventing page spans, inventing DOI strings, inventing container titles, inventing publication cities. 6. Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Format as Format. Constraints: - Map from Inventory only. No invented page numbers or DOIs. - Honor Edition. No emojis.
Instructions
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Generated Output
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Examples
Example Input
Inventory: Harbor Quay Logistics as pasted author Mira Chen as pasted container stub Harbor Review as pasted; River Ops Brief as pasted author UNKNOWN. Page span NOT IN INPUTS. DOI NONE. Edition: MLA 9 as pasted (do not invent MLA 10) Section: Works Cited Draft Notes as pasted CiteOrder: Harbor Quay Logistics first then River Ops Brief as pasted Banned: guaranteed citation, page invent, DOI invent, container invent Never: invent page numbers, invent DOIs, invent container titles, invent cities Format: ledger + table + order + edition + refuse + compliance Lang: English
Example Output
1. Ledger. Inventory: Harbor Quay Logistics author Mira Chen container stub Harbor Review; River Ops Brief author UNKNOWN. Page span NOT IN INPUTS. DOI NONE. Edition MLA 9. Section Works Cited Draft Notes. CiteOrder Harbor Quay Logistics then River Ops Brief. Lang English. Banner: not a finished Works Cited list; not fair-use legal advice. Forbidden: invented page numbers, DOIs, container titles, cities, guaranteed citation, page invent, DOI invent, container invent. 2. Works Cited map. 1. Harbor Quay Logistics | author Mira Chen as pasted | container Harbor Review as pasted | page NOT IN INPUTS | DOI NONE. 2. River Ops Brief | author UNKNOWN | container NOT IN INPUTS | page NOT IN INPUTS | DOI NONE. Publication city not invented. Access date not invented. 3. Citation order. 1 Harbor Quay Logistics then 2 River Ops Brief as pasted. No third work invented. Sequence beyond CiteOrder stays NOT IN INPUTS. 4. Edition lock. MLA 9 as pasted. MLA 10 note forms not used. Core elements only if present in Inventory. 5. Refuse. Page invent: refused. DOI invent: refused. Container invent: refused. City invent: refused. Guaranteed citation: refused. 6. Compliance. Banned hits none. Format ledger+table+order+edition+refuse+compliance. Gaps: page spans, River Ops author, container for River Ops, DOI if any, hanging-indent template path. Missing-data policy: if a field was blank, write NOT IN INPUTS rather than guessing. Lock any tool version named in Inputs; if unnamed, write unknown. No invented testimonials, star ratings, or press logos. If legal, clinical, insurance, HR, education-plan, or veterinary content appears, add a one-line not-advice and de-identify banner. Quote banned-word hits and cut them. End with a gaps list of five bullets the user still owes you. Character and byte caps in the job are hard; print counts when relevant. Refuse to backfill DOIs, exam dumps, PHI, PII, or compensation promises not in Inputs.