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Reference list entry: Government document

Type of source
Sample entry in reference list
Congressional reports and documents
U.S. Congress.  Senate.  Committee on Foreign Relations. 

     1956. The Mutual Security Act.  84th Cong., 2d sess.,

     S. Rept. 2273.
Congressional debate
Congressional Record.  1966.  89th Cong., 2d sess.,

     vol. 112, pt. 16.
Presidential proclamations and executive orders
Reagan, Ronald.  1984.  Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery

     Act, Proclamation 5142.  Federal Register, vol. 49,

     no. 2, p. 341.

[The p. is used here to distinguish the page number from the volume and issue numbers.]

Executive department document
U.S. Department of Commerce.  Bureau of the Census.  1975.

     Statistical Abstract of the United States.

     Washington:  Department of Commerce.
Treaties
U.S. Department of State.  1963.  Nuclear Weapons Test Ban,

     5 August. TIAS no. 5433.  U.S. Treaties and Other

     International Agreements, vol. 14, pt. 3.

["TIAS" indicates the treaty series.]

 


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