MLA Citation Guide (MLA 9th Edition): Case Studies

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Title of Case Study. Case Study Number (if given), Sponsoring Organization, Date of publication or last modified date, URL. Case Study.

Example

Shotts, Ken, and Sheila Melvin. Intellectual Property in a Time of Pandemic: The COVID-19 Vaccines. Case No. ETH33, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2021, www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/case-studies/intellectual-property-time-pandemic-covid-19-vaccines. Case Study.  

Required elements: Author last name, page number (if given) 

Parenthetical style example

(Shotts and Melvin)

Note: This case study has no page numbers so this information is left out of the in-text citation.

Narrative style example

Shotts and Melvin state that "insert quote here".

Last Name of Author, First Name. "Title of Chapter/Case Study." Title of Book, edited by First Name Last Name of Editor if given, Publisher, Year of Publication, pp. Page Numbers. Database Name or URL (if citing eBook). Case Study.

Example

Rivera, Reynaldo G. "Green Cause-Related Marketing for Social Innovation: Helping People to Reimagine Plastic Recycling and Sustainability." Cause-related Marketing: Case Studies from a Global Perspective, Springer, 2021, pp. 19-30. eBook Central. Case Study.

Required elements: Author last name, page number 

Parenthetical style example

(Rivera 23)

Narrative style example

Rivera states that "insert quote here" (23).