Citation Guide for Government & Legal Information

Pick a style manual (or locate the one specified by your Instructor) and use it consistently. The examples below are excellent for providing a "style" for citing government information in paper, micro-format, and on the Web.

• Cheney, Debora. The Complete Guide to Citing Government Information Resources: A Manual for Social Science and Business Research

• The Bluebook: a Uniform System of Citation (Harvard Law Review Association)

• Prince, Mary Miles. Prince's Bieber dictionary of legal citations : a reference guide for attorneys, legal secretaries, paralegals, and law students

• Citing Records in the National Archives of the United States

• How to cite electronic, print, and microfiche congressional publications
  available via LexisNexis Congressional to researchers with a Penn State Access Account

• DocsCite (Arizona State University Libraries)
  "DocsCite is a step-by-step guide to putting government publication citations into proper style format."

• Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications (The University of Memphis Libraries)