POLS 454W - Legal Research and Writing

This research guide is geared to providing resources so you can do legal research and writing.

Subject Guide

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Legal Databases

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Legal Background

Citations

  • APA (7th ed.) Citation Style Guide: Government Documents
For more information on APA Citation Style go to Purdue Online Writing Lab (Purdue Owl)

Government document citations include:

  • Author or authors. The Author may be a government or corporate entity.
  • Year.
  • Title of report. Provide the report number in brackets if given.
  • Publisher.  Omit the publisher information if the author and the publisher are the same 
  • DOI or URL is hyperlinked. "Retrieved from" is omitted.
  • For a government agency, use the most specific agency.

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