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Government documents are books, pamphlets, or
other materials published by a federal, state, or local government
agency. Many government documents are in both electronic and
paper form. Look for an URL in the body of the citation which
will lead you to the electronic version of the item.
Please note! The format of citations vary
considerably between databases. All these characteristics may
not be present in one citation. If a citation contains two or
more of these characteristics, it's probably a government document
citation.
| 1 - The author of a government document is
frequently some office, bureau, or department of the government. |
| 2 - "Supt Docs" is an abbreviation
for the Superintendent of Documents, the publisher of U.S.
government documents. |
| 3 - "GovDoc" is a common abbreviation
for government documents. |
| 4 - Call numbers like this are assigned to
government documents published by the Superintendent of
Documents (SUDOC numbers). |
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