Government Documents Collections at Ohio University
This guide is intended as an introduction to the government documents collections in the Ohio University Libraries, which include federal, state, local, and international materials. Ohio University's Goverment Documents collections are on the 5th floor of Alden Library. They include:
United States Government Documents
How Are U.S. Government Documents Arranged?
SuDoc Call Numbers
The Superintendent of Documents (SuDoc) classification system is an alphanumeric call number system used to shelve U.S. government publications. SuDoc call numbers are frequently given as part of bibliographic citations. The SuDocs system is seperate from the Library of Congress Classification scheme used for other library collections.
Each publication is assigned a letter based on the issuing department:
A = Agriculture Department
AE = National Archives and Records Administration
C = Commerce Department
CC = Federal Communications Commission
D = Defense Department
ED = Education
EP = Environmental Protection Agency
I = Department of Interior
J = Justice Department
L = Labor Department
OP = Overseas Private Investment Corporation
PREX = Executive Office of the President
S = State Department
TD = Transportation Department
Y = Congress
How are Government Documents Cited?
- Uncle Sam: Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications
A guide, produced by the University of Memphis, that describes how to cite government documents in the University of Chicago/Turabian format.
- Guides to Citing Government Documents
This page links to a series of guide that describe how to cite government documents in APA, Chicago, MLA, and Turabian formats.
- Citing Government Information Sources Using MLA Citation Style
A guide from the University of Nevada, Reno.
- DocsCite
A step-by-step citation generator for government documents in either MLA or APA format. Produced by Arizona State University.