1. Supplemental elements may be placed after the Title of Source element and at the end of a works-cited-list entry.

2. Two pieces of information are the most likely to appear after the author-title unit: contributors other than the author and an access date. 

3. You are citing a 2014 edition of Aphra Behn’s novel Oroonoko, originally published in 1688. You can list 1688 in the final supplemental element in your entry.

4. You are citing the introduction to Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle. On the first page of the introduction you see “Introduction: Life in Shirley Jackson’s (Out) Castle.” The following is an acceptable way to cite this source:

Lethem, Jonathan. “Life in Shirley Jackson’s (Out) Castle.” Introduction. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson, Penguin Books, 2006, pp. vii–xii.

5. An access date for an online work should generally be provided if the work lacks a publication date or if you suspect that the work has been altered or removed. 

6. You are citing the transcript of a speech you found on a website. The following entry shows an acceptable way to indicate that the speech was originally given in 1953 and that you did not transcribe the speech yourself but used a transcript.

Eisenhower, Dwight D. “Chance for Peace.” Transcript. Docsteach, National Archives, www .docsteach.org/documents/document/chance-for-peace-speech. 16 Apr. 1953.

7. You should always provide original publication information in your works-cited-list entry. 

8. You are citing a multivolume work. The following entry shows an acceptable way to make this information clear to your reader:

Wellek, René. A History of Modern Criticism, 1750–1950. 8 vols. Yale UP, 1992.

9. You are citing a work that is available in HTML and as a PDF on a website. You are citing the PDF. The following entry shows an acceptable way to make clear to your reader which version you are citing:

United Nations, General Assembly. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Resolution 217 A, 10 Dec. 1948. United Nations, www .un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/. PDF download. 

10. You are citing a government publication and wish to let your reader know the number and session of Congress as well as the type and number of the publication. The following entry shows an acceptable way to provide this information:

United States, Congress, House, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. 109th Congress, 2nd session, House Report 615. Al-Qaeda: The Many Faces of an Islamist Extremist Threat. Government Printing Office, 2006.