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MLA Citation Guide (MLA 9th Edition): Government & Professional Organization Documents

Government & Professional Organization Documents

Note: If you are citing a page or article from a government website, see Citation examples for websites with individual or group author.

 

Government Document/Report from a Website

Works Cited List Citation

Author's Last Name, First Name if given. Title of Document. Edition if given and is not first edition, Name of Professional Organization or Government Department/Agency/Committee, Publication Date, URL. Accessed Day Month Year viewed (optional, add if there is no upload/publication date).

Notes:

If you are using a pdf version of the document, add at the following at the end of your citation: PDF download.

When a work is published by an organization that is also the author, begin the entry with the title. If the author of a work is a division or committee of the organization, list the division or committee as the author, and list the organization as the publisher.


Examples

Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2015, www.trc.ca/assets/pdf/Honouring_the_Truth_Reconciling_for_the_Future_July_23_2015.pdf. PDF download.

Mashford-Pringle, Angela et al. What We Heard: Indigenous Peoples and COVID-19.  Public Health Agency of Canada, Feb. 2021, www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/documents/corporate/publications/chief-public-health-officer-reports-state-public-health-canada/from-risk-resilience-equity-approach-covid-19/indigenous-peoples-covid-19-report/cpho-wwh-report-en.pdf. PDF download.

Practice Standard: Code of Conduct. College of Nurses of Ontario, 2023, www.cno.org/globalassets/docs/prac/49040_code-of-conduct.pdf. PDF download.
In-Text Citation

Required elements: 

  • If author is known, include author last name and page number (if given)
  • If author is not listed, include title of document (in Italics) and page number (if given). If the source has a long title, you may shorten it in your in-text citation by using the first word/phrase from the title.

 

Parenthetical style examples

(Honouring the Truth 15)

(Mashford-Pringle et al. 24)

(Practice Standard 7)

 

Narrative style example

Mashford-Pringle et al. state that "insert quote here" (24).

Government Document/Report in Print

Works Cited List Citation

Author's Last Name, First Name if given. Title of Document: Subtitle if Given. Edition if given and is not first edition, Name of Professional Organization or Government Department/Agency/Committee, Publication Date.


Example

Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2015.
In-Text Citation

Required elements: 

  • If author is known, include author last name and page number (if given)
  • If author is not listed, include title of document (in Italics) and page number (if given). If the source has a long title, you may shorten it in your in-text citation by using the first word/phrase from the title.

 

Example

(Honouring the Truth 15)
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