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MLA Style

Your guide to citations and works cited in MLA Style, 9th Edition

Government Documents

Give the name as presented by the source. If the author is not specified, or is unclear, cite the author as the government agency that issued the document, listing the entities from largest to smallest - so government, then the ministry or agency. For dates, give only the year even if the source gives a more specific date.

Works Cited

Published work

If the author and the publisher are the same, omit the author.

Name of Government Department, Agency or Committee. Title of Document: Subtitle if Given. Edition (if any), Publisher, Year.

Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report. 5th ed., Statistics Canada, 2006. 


On a Website

Name of Government Department, Agency or Committee. Title of Document : Subtitle if Given. Edition (if any), Publisher, Year, URL.

Ontario, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Smoke-Free Ontario: The Next Chapter - 2018. Queen's Printer for Ontario, 2018, 
www.health.gov.on.ca/en/common/ministry/publications/reports/SmokeFreeOntario/SFO_The_Next_Chapter.pdf.


In-text Citation

(Government Name page).

(Statistics Canada)

(Ontario, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care 12).

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