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WU Libraries Government, Etc.: Citing Government Information

Subject librarian: Barbara Rehkop
Office Hours: By Appointment
Email: brehkop@wustl.edu
Phone: 314/935-7465
Fax: 314/935-4919

Link to Main Government page 

Citation Guides and Style Manuals
Provided by the University of North Texas. It is an excellent resource for all types of style manuals.

Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications 
Most style manuals do a remarkably poor job in explaining how to cite government publications, so government publications librarians got together and did one of our own. The government publications staff at the University of Memphis (TN) created an easy-to-copy website which is reprinted here for your use.

A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources... 
Written by Melvin E. Page, East Tennessee State University, for "H-Net" at Michigan State University. If you're going to use websites as sources in your paper, please use this guide for footnotes and bibliographies. If you are smart, you will print out the homepage of every website you list for physical proof that it once existed (because, in the near future, it may not!).

Library of Congress Learning Page: How To Cite Electronic Resources 
This site shows examples for both MLA-style and Turabian-style citations, for government information, maps, films, and much more.