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The basic format for citing a single sheet print map in MLA is:
Author. Title of Map. Format. Edition. Scale of Map. Location: Publisher, Year. Version of Map.
Example:
Metsker Maps. Metsker's Map of Island County, Washington. Map. (ca. 1:70,000). Tacoma, WA:
Metsker Maps, 1979. Print.
Note: The abbreviation ca. stands for "approximately" and is used when a date, or in this instance a scale, is not known exactly.
The basic format for citing a series of sheet maps in MLA is:
Author. Title of Map. Format. Edition. Scale of Maps. Series, Map #. Location: Publisher, Year. Version of Map.
Example:
Easterbrook, Don J. Geologic Map of Western Whatcom County, Washington. Map. 1:62,500.
Miscellaneous Investigations Series, map 1-854-B. Reston, VA: U.S. Geological Survey, 1976.
Print.
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