How to Cite a Body of Documents

MLA Citation

• 1

  Type the name of the agency which produced the documents, a period, any subdivision of the agency (if necessary) and another period.

• 2

  Type the name of the body of documents in italics, capitalizing all important words and a period.

• 3

  Type the city where the agency resides, a semi-colon, the organization which compiled the documents, a comma, the year the documents where created, "Print" and a period. The final citation should look like this: "New York State. Department of Animal Services. Report of the Current State of the Animal Services Department. Albany: Troy, 1979. Print."

APA Citation

• 4

  Type the name of the agency which produced the documents, a period, the year the documents where created in parentheses and a period.

• 5

  Type the name of the body of documents in italics (capitalizing only the first word of the title), the document number (if applicable) in parentheses and a period.

• 6

  Type the city where the documents were created, a comma, the state where the documents where created, a semi-colon, the organization which compiled the documents and a period. The final citation should look like this: "New York State. (1979). Report of the current state of the animal services program (Publication No. 000975). Albany, NY: Troy."