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Citation rules/Legislative materials

Legislative materials.

Bills, resolutions, hearings, reports, and debates.

28 rules on 6 pages of the book.

In this chapter

13.2Bills and Resolutions9
13.3Hearings2
13.4Reports, Documents, and Committee Prints11
13.5Debates3
13.7Electronic Media and Online Sources1
13.8Short Forms for Legislative Materials2

13.2Bills and Resolutions

13.2(a)Add the bill or resolution number
13.2(a)Add the number of the Congress
13.2(a)Add the year of publication
13.2(a)Use the abbreviation for the house
13.2(a)Use the Congress number with its suffix
13.2(b)Remove “(enacted)”
13.2(c)Abbreviate the legislative body
13.2(c)Add the legislative session
13.2(c)Add the state to the parenthetical

13.3Hearings

13.3(a)Add the hearing’s title or year
13.3(b)Add the hearing’s legislative session

13.4Reports, Documents, and Committee Prints

Use small caps for the report designation
13.4(a)Add the missing punctuation
13.4(a)Add the session to the parenthetical
13.4(a)Use a hyphen in the report number
13.4(a)Use the chamber's document designation
13.4(a)Use the chamber's report designation
13.4(c)Add the Congress to the author
13.4(d)Add the agency's report number
13.4(e)Add the missing journal elements
13.4(f)Add the session or the year
13.4(f)Add the state in a parenthetical

13.5Debates

Cite the debate to the Congressional Record
Use “(daily ed.)” or the year alone
Use the earlier debate series

13.7Electronic Media and Online Sources

13.7(a)Add the database number

13.8Short Forms for Legislative Materials

13.8(a)Replace the citation with words
13.8(b)Replace the citation with words

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Also in this part of the book: Cases, Constitutions, Statutes, Administrative materials, Books and reports, Periodicals, Unpublished sources, Internet and media, Looseleaf services.

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