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From the OWL resource MLA Formatting and Style Guide
Works Cited Page: Other Print Sources
This section includes MLA works cited information on sources other than books, periodicals, and electronic sources.
Advertisement
List the company, business, or organization; the publication, broadcast network, or Web address where the advertisement appeared:
Lufthansa. Advertisement. Time 20 Nov. 2000: 151.
Staples. Advertisement. CBS. 3 Dec. 2000.
A Legal Document
To cite a legal act, make sure you can identify the name of the act, its Public Law number, date it was enacted, and its Statutes at Large cataloging number. Abbreviate Pub. L. and Stat. before the two numbers. Do not use any quotation marks or italics in these citations.
Aviation and Transportation Security Act. Pub. L. 107-71. 19 Nov. 2001. Stat. 115.597.
To cite a court case, you need to identify the primary parties involved, the case number, name of the court where the ruling took place, and the date of the ruling.
New York Times Co. v. Tasini. No. 00-201. Supreme Ct.of the US. 25 June 2005.
Refer to The Blue Book: A Uniform System of Citation if you are going to work with several different kinds of legal documents in your research, such as patents.
NOTE: If you are referring to a well-known historical document like the US Constitution or the United States Code (USC), you don't need to include it in the works cited and can simply use an in-text citation like (US Const., art. 1, sec. 1) or (17 USC 304, 1976).
A Map or Chart
Cite a map or chart as you would an anonymous book or pamphlet. Include the appropriate designator after the title.
Wisconsin. Map. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation, 1997/98.
US Markets - Long-Term Performance. Chart. Austin, TX: Martin Capital Advisors, 2007.
A Cartoon or Comic Strip
Cite the artist, the title of the cartoon in quotations, and the appropriate designator identifying the type of document it is.
Sipress, David. Cartoon. New Yorker 18 Oct. 2004: 16.
Trudeau, Garry. "Doonesbury." Comic Strip. Star-Ledger [Newark] 4 May 2002: 26.
A Letter or Memo
Only cite those letters that are published letters, unpublished letters from archived collections, or those you received as the author/researcher.
Published letters are cited like works in a collection:
Author. "Title" (if one)." Date of Letter. Letter xyz of Title of Collection. Editor. Publication information.
Unpublished letters are cited like manuscripts:
Author. Letter to Recipient. Date. Collection title. Archive location.
Letters to researcher are cited as "Letter to the author" as follows:
Author. Letter to the author. Date received.
A Manuscript or Typescript
Cite the work by its title or by a descriptive term like "Notebook," the type of material it is, any number assigned to it, and the library or archive location where it is housed.
Twain, Mark. Notebook 32, ts. Mark Twain Papers. U of California, Berkeley.
Class/Lecture Notes Taken By Student
MLA does not have any official rule for citing class or lecture notes taken by a student during a class. Our suggestion is that you track down a source on the topic you would like to reference in your notes. Or, if the item is something that a professor or classmate said that is uniquely their own observation, you should quote them in text without a parenthetical citation at the end of the sentence. Thus you would not include this as a source on your Works Cited page. Just provide as much identifying information in the text itself. For example:
In a lecture on 5 October 2004, in a graduate course on composition theory, Dr. Irwin Weiser stated, "...
Class/Lecture Notes Distributed by Professor
MLA also does not have any official rule on class/lecture notes that are provided to a class by the professor, either through handouts or PowerPoint slideshows. Because such notes are documented by a party other than the student, however, we would suggest that you include these in your Works Cited unlike other class notes. Simply consider these documents as you would other unpublished papers or presentations, but use the designator "Course notes" or "Course handout" to identify the type of document it is.
For notes that are purchased or handed out in class:
Instructor's Name. "Title of Handout/Notes/Slideshow." Course notes. Name of Course. Dept., Institution. Date notes were received.
Seas, Kristen. "Conference Guidelines." Course handout. Introductory Composition. Dept. of English, Purdue University. 25 Aug. 2006.
For notes available online as PDFs & PowerPoint slides on course site:
Instructor's Name. "Title of Document." Course notes. Date distributed (or created, if known). Course title. Course home page. Dept., Institution. Date accessed from site. <URL>.
Meunier, Pascal. "CS 380S Week 4: Format String Vulnerabilities and Integer Overflows." Course notes. 31 Jan. 2007. Secure Programming. Course home page. Dept. of Computer Science, Purdue University. 5 Mar. 2007. <http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/cs390s/refs.html>