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Article in an Anthology: Further Examples
Basic Example. If only one article from the volume is used, supply the full information in one reference as follows. The page numbers of the article are given at the end of the reference:
Farrell, Thomas B. "The Carnival as Confessional: Re-reading the Figurative Dimension in Nixon’s 'Checkers' Speech." Texts in
	Context: Critical Dialogues on Significant Episodes in American Political Rhetoric. Ed. Michael C. Leff and Fred J. Kauffeld. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1989. 243–252. Print.
Cross-Referencing. If more than one article from the same is used, employ a cross-reference system, including in the individual references the author and title of the article and the pagination (see parenthetical references in books). The full reference for the book appears under the editor’s name only. The articles are alphabetized by author in the reference list:
Farrell, Thomas B. "The Carnival as Confessional: Re-reading the Figurative Dimension in Nixon’s "Checkers" Speech."
	Leff and Kauffeld 243–252.
Leff, Michael C., and Fred J. Kauffeld, eds. Texts in Context: Critical Dialogues on Significant Episodes in American
	Political Rhetoric. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1989. Print.
Osborn, Michael. "'I've Been to the Mountaintop': The Critic as Participant." Leff and Kauffeld 149–166.
Speech Printed in Another Source
Speeches that have been published in anthologies or books authored or edited by someone else are precisely similar to articles published in edited books.
Havel, Vaclav. "Address of the President of the Czechoslovak Republic to a Joint Session of the United States Congress."
	The New York Times 22 Feb. 1990. Print.
King, Martin Luther. "I've Been to the Mountaintop." Texts in Context: Critical Dialogues on Significant Episodes in American
	Political Rhetoric. Ed. Michael C. Leff and Fred J. Kauffeld. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1989. 311–322. Print.
Mott, Lucretia. "The Law of Progress." Lucretia Mott: Her Complete Speeches and Sermons. Ed. Dana Greene. New
	York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1980. 71-79. Print.
Unpublished Speeches
Unpublished speeches are those sent to you directly by a Congressional representative, discovered in manuscript in a library archive or microform collection, and/or not published in a regular book, journal, proceedings, magazine, congressional document, web page, etc. Give place, date and occasion of the speech. Where specific information is lacking, whatever description is available must substitute, including the source if known. See also Gibaldi and Achtert (174-175). If there is no formal title, and you supply a descriptive title, quotes are not used. See Gibaldi and Achtert (147) for a list of abbreviations for various elements not supplied, such as n. d., no date given.
Havel, Vaclav. Address of the President of the Czechoslovak Republic to a Joint Session of the United States Congress.
	Washington, DC. 21 Feb. 1990.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "Woman in the Bible." Unpublished speech manuscript. Library of Congress, Washington, DC. n.d.
Government Documents
Congressional documents are alphabetized in the reference list under the corporate body responsible for them, e.g. the Senate or the House, before or instead of the individual speakers. You must make clear in your paper to which speaker you are referring to avoid confusion. Note that the rules for volume and number of the Congressional Record are slightly different than for a periodical. The page reference looks like the one at the end of this sentence (U.S. Congress, House 4931).The corresponding reference looks as follows:
U.S. Congress. House. Consideration by the Committee of the Whole House of the District of Columbia
	Appropriations Act 1990. 101st Cong., 2d sess. H. Res. 3026. Congressional Record 2 Aug. 1989: 4915–4939. Print.

Reference List
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern
	Language Association of America, 2009. Print.