How to handle a bib source with no author? I am writing a paper in English and have a couple of sources that have no author. In German there would be the abbreviation o.V. standing for ohne Verfasser which translates to no author in those cases.

How is this handled in English papers? Would an appropriate translation be n.a. standing for no author? Is there a way in Latex to automatically put something in place by just providing a bib entry without an author?

Instead of:

@online{cloud-ide04,
    author = {n.a.},
    title = {codeanywhere},
    publisher = {Codeanywhere, Inc.},
    urldate = {2018-03-26},
    url = {https://codeanywhere.com/}
}


Rather do:

@online{cloud-ide04,
    title = {codeanywhere},
    publisher = {Codeanywhere, Inc.},
    urldate = {2018-03-26},
    url = {https://codeanywhere.com/}
}
Modern Language Association (8) dictates that when one piece of information is missing from a citation, one simply skips that piece of information within the citation.

For example, if I published a book called "Dogs", the final citation would start:


  Fey, Mercurial. Dogs.


If I had published it without an authors name, the citation would instead start:


  Dogs.


Both citations would then continue with editors, volumes, and publishers.