Citation Style Guides

Various guides for citing government information, from the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT)

Also available in print in the U.S. Government Publications section: AE 1.113:17/2010

The examples in this section serve as a guide to the most common formats and types available on the Library of Congress Web site. Uses style guidelines that are commonly used in history (Chicago) and language arts (MLA) disciplines.

Learn how to read a government document in order to extract the proper information for citations.

This guide provides examples of the most common examples of international governmental organization (IGO) document citations. This does not include documents of non-governmental organizations, such as the Red Cross, or those of national governments. These examples are based on the Chicago standard bibliographic style.