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MLA 9th referencing style

A guide to using MLA 9th referencing style

Government publication - print

Reference Example
Note

If an organisation is both the author and the publisher, you may skip the author element and list the organisation in the publisher element only. However, if the author is a division or committee of the organisation, list the division or committee in the author element and organisation as the publisher. Refer to MLA Handbook section 5.19, p. 119. 

For reference entries where the author element is skipped, shorten the title in in-text citations for entries beginning with a title. There must be enough information for a reader to find the entry in the works cited list. For more information on citing entries that begin with the title refer to the MLA Handbook section 6.10, pp. 237-38.

In-text

(Convention 2)

OR

The United Nations General Assembly addresses this in its Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, which states that... (2)

OR

The Department of Communication and the Arts reports on Angela's story... (1)

Reference list

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. United Nations General Assembly, 1979.

Department of Communication and the Arts. My Art Goals: NDIS and the Arts. Australian Government, 5 Dec. 2019, arts.gov.au/publications/my-art-goals-ndis-and-arts.

Endnote reference type

Generic

Government document

Report

Entrer the title of the report into the "Secondary Title" field to ensure that it will be italicised.

Government publication - online

Reference Example
In-text

(Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet iiv)

Reference list

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Review of Australian Government Investment in the Indigenous Broadcasting and Media Sector. Australian Government, 2010, firstnationsmedia.org.au/sites/default/files/files/Stevens-Review-2010-review-broadcasting-investment.pdf.

Endnote reference type

Generic

Government document

Report

You will need to manually edit the output for this style in the plain text version of the document to change the full stop after the date into a comma.