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MLA Citation Information‐Miscellaneous Print and Non‐Print Sources

*Many of the citations below contain elements that are unique to the particular format. Follow the samples below to determine what information is required for each citation.

Sample Periodical Citations

Advertisement

Kellogg’s All-Bran Complete. Advertisement. Health Mar. 2010: 49. Print.

Nike Apparel. Advertisement. CBS. 18 Apr. 2010. Television.

Cartoon or Comic Strip

Rogers, Rob. “Brewed on Grant.” Cartoon. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 21 Apr. 2010. Print.

Trudeau, Gary. “Doonesbury.” Comic Strip. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 21 Apr. 2010. Print.

CD – Sound Recording

Franklin, Aretha. Aretha Franklin: Chain of Fools. Atlantic, 1993. CD.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Read by Dick Hill. Brilliance Audio Collection, 18

Sep. 2002. CD.

Digital Files (Stored, printed or attached files of various types)

™ Cite the original work and add the medium of publication followed by “file.”

Counting Crows. “Mr. Jones.” August and Everything After. DGC, 1993. MP3 file.

Jack, Faith. “Gale Catalog Wishlist.” 8 Apr. 2010. PDF file.

“New Leads.” The Office. NBC. WPXI, Pittsburgh. 18 Mar. 2010. MP4 file.

Soose, Karen. “Daily Announcements.” Message to HS Staff. 22 Apr. 2010. Microsoft Word file.

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DVD or Film

Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Dir. Shekhar Kapur. Perf. Cate Blanchett and Samantha Morton.

Universal, 2007. Film.

Pittsburgh’s Rivers & Bridges. Prod. and Narr. by Rick Sebak. WQED Multimedia, 2007.

DVD.

Government Document

United States. Cong. House. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. 107th Cong. HR 1. Washington:

GPO, 2001. Print.

Interviews (Personal Interview, Telephone Interview or E-mail Interview)

Doe, Jane. E-mail Interview. 22 Apr. 2010.

Doe, Jane. Personal Interview. 22 Apr. 2010.

Doe, Jane. Telephone Interview. 22 Apr. 2010.

Interviews (Published or Broadcast)

Clancy, Tom. “An Interview with Tom Clancy.” The Tom Clancy Companion. Ed. Martin

Greenberg. New York: Berkley, 1992. 57-86. Print.

Fuentes, Norberto. “The Commandant’s Comrade.” Interview by Adam Rathe. Publishers

Weekly. Reed Business Information. 12 Oct. 2009. Web. 20 Apr. 2010.

Wiesel, Elie. Interview by Ted Koppel. Nightline. ABC. WTAE, Pittsburgh. 18 Apr. 2002.

Television.

Lecture, Speech or Address

Breyer, Stephen. “Supreme Court Brief.” Drue Heinz Lectures. Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh.

18 Oct. 2010. Lecture. Shaler Area School Libraries 22 Apr. 2010

Legal Source

Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico. No.80-2043. Supreme Ct.

of the US. 25 June 1982. Print.

No Child Left Behind Act. Pub. L. 107-110. 8 Jan. 2002. Stat. 1425. Print.

Letter, Memo or E-mail Message (TS stands for “typescript” and is the Medium of Publication for non-published correspondence.)

Buzzelli, June. “Magazine Summary.” Memo to HS-Librarians. 21 Apr. 2010. TS.

Royall, Timothy. “Walkthrough Summaries: Effective Teaching Strategies.” Message to HS-

Teachers. 22 Mar. 2010. E-mail.

*For a letter, memo or email you received:

Tilton, Kay. Letter to the author. 16 Apr. 2010. TS.

Live Performance

Moon Water. Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan. Kennedy Center, Washington. 30 Jan. 2010.

Performance.

Map, Chart or Diagram Egypt’s Nile Valley. Map. Washington: Natl. Geographic, 2003. Print. First Aid for Choking. Chart. Washington: Amer. Natl. Red Cross, 1987. Print.

Musical Composition Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyitch. Nutcracker Suite: in Full Score. 1892. Reprint of D. Rahter Edition.

New York: Dover, 1987. Print.

Pamphlet

American Cancer Society. The Decision is Yours. N.p.: Hope.Progress.Answers, 2002. Print.

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Photograph

Adams, Ansel. Frozen Lake and Cliff, Sequoia National Park. 1932. Photograph. Museum of

Modern Art, San Francisco.

Adams, Ansel. Frozen Lake and Cliff, Sequoia National Park. 1932. Photograph. Museum of

Modern Art, San Francisco. Our National Parks. By Ansel Adams. Boston: Little Brown,

1992. Plate 70. Print.

Sculpture or Painting

Picasso, Pablo. The Old Guitarist. Oil on panel. 1903. Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection.

The Art Institute of Chicago.

Rodin, Auguste. The Thinker. 1908. Bronze and Marble. Musée Rodin, Paris.

Rodin, Auguste. The Thinker. 1879-89. Bronze. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

History of Art. By H.W. Janson. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1963. Plate 750. Print.

Television or Radio Program

“New Leads.” The Office. NBC. WPXI, Pittsburgh. 18 Mar. 2010. Television.

“Return to the Giant Pool of Money.” . Host . Prod.

Adam Davidson, and Planet Money. NPR. WYEP, Pittsburgh. 29 Sep. 2009. Radio.