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Chicago Citation Style 17th: C. Government Publication

This guide will help you cite sources using the Chicago Citation Style 17th edition.

Government Publication Online (p. 778-779, 770)

General Format 
 
 
 
      Full Note: 
            1. Name of Government Body/Division, Publication Title, (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), URL.
      
 
      Concise Note: 
            2. Name of Government Body/Division, Publication Title.
 
 
      Bibliography:
    
          
 
 
 
Example 
 
 
 
      Full Note:
           1. U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1943 (Washington, DC: GPO, 1965), 562. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/FRUS.FRUS1943v03.
 
 
 
 
      Concise Note:
             2. U.S. Department of State, on Aboriginal Peoples, Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1943.
 
 
 
 
      Bibliography:

 

 

When the note entry includes a URL that must be divided between two lines, break it after a colon or a double slash or before a tilde (~), period, single slash, comma or hyphen. (p.659)

 

      

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