Bibliography Styles Handbook     

MLA Format: Corporate authorship in a bibliography entry

When a corporation has authored a text, typical bibliographic entries will appear as follows:

Alan Guttmacher Institute. State Legislative Record: 1988 Fertility-Related Bills and Laws as of December 31. Washington, D.C.: Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1988.


Hunter College Women's Studies Collective. Women's Realities, Women's Choices.New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.


The corporate author's name should appear in full, followed by a period and two spaces (prior to the next part of the entry). Even if the corporate author and the publisher are the same, the corporate author's name should still appear in the author (as well as publisher) position of a bibliography entry.