East Central Ohio Area Media Center

If you are citing in MLA (Modern Language Association) style, we recommend:

 

 CD-ROM
"Kingdom of Spain." 3D Atlas 98.  CD-ROM.  Redwood City, CA: Creative Wonders, 1998.

Videotape without a director's name
Producers Capture Solar Energy.  Videocassette.  United Learning, 1997.

Book on Tape - For a spoken word recording, choose whether to begin by listing the speaker, the writer, or the production director, depending on which is most important in your use of the resource.

Blake, William. "The Tiger."  Narrated by John Franklyn-Robbins and Davina Porter.  Audiocassette.  The Romantics.  Recorded Books, 1996.

Music CD
Gizra People.  "Song About a Bird (excerpt)." Global Celebration.  New York: Ellipsis Arts, 1993.

DVD
Library of Congress.  Eyes of the Nation.  DVD.  South Park Interactive, 1997.

 

Purchase the official MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
 

If you are citing in APA (American Psychological Association) style:

 Entries in the works cited list are the same as for MLA above. 

Where it is necessary to cite an entire non-print work in the body of a paper, it is preferable to include the reference in the text, rather than in parentheses.  The name of the person (writer, performer, director, etc.) that begins the corresponding entry in the works cited list should be used in the embedded reference. 

To cite a work listed by title, use only enough of the title to distinguish it from others in the works cited list. 

 

Purchase the official Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association