MLA Style Citation Examples

NOTE: To cite legal documents, the MLA Handbook uses The Chicago Manual of Style.

WORKS CITED (print congressional publication)

      IN TEXT

      (United States, Congress, House, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 2).

WORKS CITED (online congressional publication)

      IN TEXT

      (United States, Congress, Senate, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 25).

WORKS CITED (Agency and publisher are the same)

      IN TEXT

      (The Adirondack Park 63).

WORKS CITED (Government agency is not the same as publisher)

     IN TEXT

     (Great Britain, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food 29).

WORKS CITED

(For more examples look on pages 104 & 105 in the eighth edition)

United States, Congress, House, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Al-Qaeda: The Many Faces of an Islamist Extremist Threat. Government Printing Office, 2006. 109th Congress, 2nd session, House Report 615. 

IN TEXT 

(Al-Qaeda).