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MLA Documentation Help: Other Common Sources

This guide provides help with citation and documentation in MLA format

Links to Citation Examples for Other Common Sources

Performance (5.7.4)

Begin the entry with the title of the performance, followed by facts given for a film (5.7.3), and ends with site of the performance (theater, city.), date of the performance, and the word performance to indicate the medium of publication.

Heartbreak House. By George Bernard Shaw. Dir. Robin Lefevre. Perf. Philip Bosco and Swoosie Kurtz. Roundabout

Theatre Company.  Amer. Airlines Theatre, New York. 1 Oct. 2006. Performance.

Musical Score (5.7.5)

Treat a published score like a book, beginning with the composer's name. Include the date of composition if known.

Donizetti, Gaetano. Don Pasquale: An Opera in Three Acts with Italian-Engish Text. 1842. New York: Belwin, 1969. Print.

Visual Art (image, photograph, painting, sculpture) (5.7.6)

Artist name. Title. Date of composition. Medium of Composition. Institution that houses the work/collection

name, city of the institution/collection.

If citing an online source, include the name of the website in italics, medium of publication, and date of access.

Perutz, Dolly Hellman. Bird Flying Machine. 1973. Bronze. Central Park, New York.

Evans, Walker. Penny Picture Display. 1936. Photograph. Museum of Mo.Art, New York.

 

Map or Chart (5.7.8)

Maps and charts follow citations for books or articles that they are found in, but add the appropriate label after the title.

Michigan. Map. Chicago: Rand, 2000. Print.

Interview (5.7.7)

Published interviews:

Name of person Interviewed. "Title of interview (if applicable)". Title of larger work. Determine the medium of publication, and then add the rest of the necessary information for the medium.

Blanchett, Cate. "In Character with: Cate Blanchett." Notes on a Scandal. Dir. Richard Eyre. Fox Searchlight, 2006. DVD.

Personal Interviews:

Name of person interviewed. Kind of interview (personal, telephone, etc.). Date.

Smith, John. Personal interview. 16 Feb. 2009.

Cartoon or Comic Strip (5.7.9)

Artist name. "Title of cartoon or comic strip (if applicable). Descriptive label (Cartoon or comic strip). Publication information based on medium of publication.

Karasik, Paul. Cartoon. New Yorker 14 Apr. 2009: 50. Print.

Trudeau, Garry. "Doonesbury." Comic strip. Post-Standard [Syracuse] 5 May 2001: 12. Print. 

Advertisement (5.7.10)

Name of product, company, institution being advertised. Descriptive label (advertisement). Publication information based on medium of publication.

American Airlines. Advertisement. CNN. 14 May 2000. Television.

Speeches/Lectures (5.7.11)

Schultz, Daniel. Sociology 101 class. Cayuga Community College, Auburn, NY: 12 Oct. 1998. Class Lecture.

Letters, Memos, Email (5.7.13)

Treat published letters like a work in a collection (5.5.6), adding the date of the letter and the number if assigned.

Woolf, Virginia. "To T.S. Eliot." 28 July 1920. Letter 1138 of The Letters of Virginia Woolf.  Ed. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne

Trautmann. Vol. 2 New York: Harcourt, 1976. 437-38. Print.

For an unpublished letter you received:

Name of person writing the letter. Letter to the author. Date. TS (typescript).

Smith, John. Letter to the author. 2 Sept. 2002. TS.

For an email:

Name of writer. "Title of message (taken from the subject line of the email)." Description of the message that

includes the recipient. Date. Medium of delivery.

Smith, John. "Re: schedule." Message to Jane Brown. 21 July 2004. E-mail.