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Government Publications

Pattern for Government Bulletins

AuthorALastName AA. Title of the Bulletin. Location: IssuingBureauOrAgency; PublicationMonth Day, Year. PublicationOrSeriesNumber.

  • Capitalize the title of the bulletin as you would the title of a book.  Cite the US Government Printing Office only if the specific name of the issuing bureau, agency, or department is not available.

1 Food and Drug Administration. Jin Bu Huan Herbal Tablets. Rockville, Md: National Press Office; April 15, 1994. Talk Paper T94-22.

  • If the government bureau that issued the bulletin is also the author, list its name in both positions.

2 US General Accounting Office. Trauma Care: Life-saving Systems Threatened by Unreimbursed Costs and Other Factors. Washington, DC: US General Accounting Office; 1991. Publication HRD 91-57.

3 US Bureau of the Census. Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1993. 113th ed. Washington, DC: US Bureau of the Census; 1993.

  • If no author is specified, begin the entry with the title of the bulletin.

4 Clinical Practice Guideline Number 5: Depression in Primary Care, 2: Treatment of Major Depression. Rockville, Md: Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, US Dept of Health and Human Services; 1993. AHCPR publication 93-0551.

Pattern for Patents

InventorALastName AA, InventorBLastName BB, inventors; PatentHolderName assignee. Title of the patent. US patent PatentNumber. GrantingMonth Day, Year.

1 Furukawa Y, Kishimoto S, Nishikawa K, inventors; Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd, assignee. Hypotensive imidazole derivatives. US patent 4 340 598. July 20, 1982.

Theses and Dissertations

Pattern for Theses

AuthorLastName AA. Title of the Thesis [typeOfThesis]. Location: AcademicInstitutionName; YearThesisCompleted.

  • Capitalize the first letter of each significant word in the title. In general, do not capitalize articles such as the, prepositions of fewer then 4 letters such as to, coordinating conjunctions such as and or or, or the to in infinitives. Treat published theses as you would a book.  

1 Knoll EG. Mental Evolution and the Science of Language: Darwin, Müller, and Romanes on the Development of the Human Mind [dissertation]. Chicago, Ill: Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science, University of Chicago; 1987.

2 King L. Modern Literary Apparitions and Their Mind-Altering Effects [master's thesis]. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University; 1994.