Title of hearing: Subcommittee Name, ###th Cong. (Year) (Testimony of Witness Name). URL [if from a public website]
The Constitution and Campaign Reform: U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, 106th Cong. (2000) (Testimony of Ira Glasser).
(The Constitution and Campaign Reform, 2000)
Statutes (or laws passed by a legislative body) are identified by assigned numbers, also called citations. These citations include public law numbers, a United States Code numbers, and statute numbers. Usually, you cite a federal statute using the U.S. Code number as follows. State statues follow a similar pattern.
Name of Act, Title # Abbreviated Name of Sources § Section # (Year). URL
Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq. (1990).
Use the public law number when the law is not (yet) included in the United States Code or when it is spread across non-consecutive parts of the Code.
Name of Law, Pub. L. No. #, Statute number (Year). URL
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Publ. L. No. 111-148, 124 Stat. 119 (2010). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-111publ148/pdf/PLAW-111publ148.pdf
(Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 2010)
Organization Name. (Year). Title of report. URL
United States Government Accountability Office. (2019). Performance and accountability report: Fiscal year 2019. https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/702715.pdf
(U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2019)
Lastname, F. M., & Lastname, F. M. (Year). Title of report. Organization Name. URL
Palanker, D., Volk, J., Lucia, K., & Thomas, K. (2018). Mental health parity at risk: Deregulating the individual market and the impact on mental health coverage. National Alliance on Mental Illness. https://www.nami.org/About-NAMI/Publications-Reports/Public-Policy-Reports/Parity-at-Risk/ParityatRisk.pdf
(Palanker et al., 2018)
Title of Agreement, Party A-Party B, date, volume number volume name page number.
Agreement on Defense and Economic Cooperation, U.S.-Greece, Sept. 8, 1983, T.I.A.S. No. 10,814.
Treaty of Neutrality (1929) or (Treaty of Neutrality, 1929)
U.S. Const. art. ###, sec. #, cl. #.
U.S. Const. amend. ###
(U.S. Const. art. I, sec. 3.)
(U.S. Const. amend. XVI)
Name v. Name, Volume # U.S. Page # (Year). URL
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Dist., 393 U.S. 503 (1969).
(Tinker v. Des Moines, 1969)
Volume # U.S. Page # is the official citation. See the image below for locating that number in Westlaw Campus. You can also find these on the right side of the Wikipedia article.
