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Government Documents

The Government Documents Department at Tennessee State University is located on the 2nd floor of Brown-Daniel Library

Chicago, APA, MLA

The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition, Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 7th Edition (APA), and the MLA Handbook 9th Edition (Modern Language Association) are the current iterations of the guideline manuals for the most widlet citation styles used. Each has its own different, unique rules and formats.

A copy of the Chicago Manual of Style and MLA Handbook can be found at both the Main and Avon Williams Campuses.

A copy of the APA style guide is available on the Main Campus only.

Each of these citation guides contains different rules on how to cite government documents and information. Please cite any information utilized from these collections based on your professor's guidelines.

Citing Government Information in Chicago, APA, and MLA Formats

Chicago- It is recommended that you follow the guidelines set forth in The Bluebook: A Uniformed System of Citation or the ALWD Guide to Legal Citation

APA- Government documents are treated as Books, Technical/Research Reports, and Brochures (The George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Science Library)

MLA- Information about citing government documents in MLA  format may be found at the following links- 

University of Portland

MLA Style Center

Also available for consultation is the APA Academic Writer. This is a new database that the university has currently subscribed to on a trial basis. It can be found under the New Databases tab.

If you are still in need of help in citing government information, don't hesitate to come into the library and receive help from the librarians. If you are unable to come into the library, you can contact us through the Ask a Librarian and Contact Us tabs on the library website's homepage or schedule a research appointment with Xuemei (Sherry) Ge, the library liaison for Citation Management. Each of these solutions can be found on the library website's homepage.