Academic, government, and legal sources (including digital versions)
If an online version is not shown here, you should use the appropriate model for the source and then end with the medium and date of access.
72. report or pamphlet. Follow the guidelines for a print book (models 6–27) or an online book (model 39).
Allen, Katherine, and Lee Rainie. Parents Online. Washington: Pew Internet & Amer. Life Project, 2002. Print.
Environmental Working Group. Dead in the Water. Washington: Environmental Working Group, 2006. Web. 24 Apr. 2011.
73. government publication. Begin with the author, if identified. Otherwise, start with the name of the government, followed by the agency. For congressional documents, cite the number, session, and house of Congress (S for Senate, H for House of Representatives); the type (Report, Resolution, Document) in abbreviated form; and the number. End with the publication information. The print publisher is often the Government Printing Office (GPO). For online versions, follow the models for a work from a Web site (model 44) or an entire Web site (model 46).
Kinsella, Kevin, and Victoria Velkoff. An Aging World: 2001. US Bureau of the Census. Washington: GPO, 2001. Print.
United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “FluView Interactive.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dec. 2012. Web. 7 Mar. 2013.
74. published proceedings of a conference. Cite proceedings as you would a book.
Cleary, John, and Gary Gurtler, eds. Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 2002. Boston: Brill Academic, 2003. Print.
75. dissertation. Enclose the title in quotation marks. Add the label Diss., the school, and the year the work was accepted.
Paris, Django. “Our Culture: Difference, Division, and Unity in Multicultural Youth Space.” Diss. Stanford U, 2008. Print.
Note: Cite a published dissertation as a book, adding the identification Diss. and the university after the title.
76. dissertation abstract. Cite as you would an unpublished dissertation (see model 75). For the abstract of a dissertation using Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI), include the DAI volume, year, and page number.
Huang-Tiller, Gillian C. “The Power of the Meta-Genre: Cultural, Sexual, and Racial Politics of the American Modernist Sonnet.” Diss. U of Notre Dame, 2000. DAI 61 (2000): 1401. Print.
77. unpublished letter. Cite a published letter as a work in an anthology (see model 10). If the letter is unpublished, follow this form, with MS (for manuscript) as the medium:
Anzaldúa, Gloria. Letter to the author. 10 Sept. 2002. MS.
78. manuscript or other unpublished work. List the author’s name; the title (if any) or a description of the material; the form of the material (such as TS for typescript) and any identifying numbers; and the name and location of the library or research institution housing the material, if applicable.
Woolf, Virginia. “The Searchlight.” N.d. TS. Ser. III, Box 4, Item 184. Papers of Virginia Woolf, 1902-1956. Smith Coll., Northampton.
79. legal source. To cite a court case, give the names of the first plaintiff and defendant, the case number, the name of the court, and the date of the decision. To cite an act, give the name of the act followed by its Public Law (Pub. L.) number, the date the act was enacted, and its Statutes at Large (Stat.) cataloging number.
Eldred v. Ashcroft. No. 01-618. Supreme Ct. of the US. 15 Jan. 2003. Print.
Museum and Library Services Act of 2003. Pub. L. 108-81. 25 Sept. 2003. Stat. 117.991. Print.
Note: You do not need an entry on the list of works cited when you cite articles of the U.S. Constitution and laws in the U.S. Code.