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Summary: The MLA manual doesn't provide instructions on citing a press release, so it's advisable to use the general principle from the MLA manual, which follows the order of author, title and publisher. Discover the importance of precision when citing press releases with help from an English professor in this free video on writing research papers.
David M. Harris has taught English at Vanderbilt University and elsewhere. He has published poetry, essays, short fiction and a novel, and he has worked in book and magazine publishing.read more
"The MLA manual doesn't actually tell us how to cite a press release; but we can work it out from the general principle. Usually a press release doesn't have an author given. Sometimes it does; if it does, we use our general principle; we have our author, last name first. If the press release has a title, we use that. And I think a press release is something small enough that we would put it inside quotation marks. However we're also going to say that this is a press release. So if there's no actual title, you wouldn't put press release inside the quotation marks. You would just use whatever title you have. A company; company or organization that is issuing it and a lot of press release come from non profit and so on and then the date and be as precise as you can with the date because a lot of organization send out a lot of press releases. So if you say 2008, that could be one of perhaps a hundred or two hundred or hundreds of press releases. You want to be as precise as possible at the exact. And now how to do it."
eHow Article: How to Cite a Press Release in MLA Format
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