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Chicago (18th ed.) Citation Style Guide: Government Documents

Canadian Government Documents Information (14.194 - 14.197)

Citing government documents, reports, and other resources varies depending on which level of government, the country of origin, how the resource is accessed (online or in print), and what kind of information is provided in the resource. Sections 14.194 - 14. 197 in the Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed. should be consulted for further information and examples. 

"The major reference work for citing Canadian public documents and legal cases in a Canadian context is the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation...Authors citing more than a few Canadian legal or public documents should consult [this or other] works"...for citing the occasional example in a US context, The Bluebook...provides some recommendations and examples" (Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed., 14.194).

Government Document or Report from a Website

Bibliographic Form

Environment and Climate Change Canada. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators. Catalogue no. En4-144/18-2023E-PDF. Environment Canada, April 2023. https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/eccc/documents/pdf/cesindicators/ghg-emissions/2023/greenhouse-gas-emissions-en.pdf.

 

Footnote Form

6. Environment and Climate Change Canada, Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators, catalogue no. En4-144/18-2023E-PDF (Environment and Climate Change Canada, 2023), 21, https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/eccc/documents/pdf/cesindicators/ghg-emissions/2023/greenhouse-gas-emissions-en.pdf.

 

Shortened Note

7. Environment and Climate Change Canada, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 22.

Government Document - Personal Author

Bibliographic Form

Prokopenko, Elena, and Feng Hou. How Temporary Were Canada's Temporary Foreign Workers? Catalogue no. 11F0019M. Statistics Canada, January 2018. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/pub/11f0019m/11f0019m2018402-eng.pdf?st=73EsECZ2.

 

Footnote Form

7. Elena Prokopenko and Feng Hou, How Temporary Were Canada's Temporary Foreign Workers?, catalogue no. 11F0019M (Statistics Canada, 2018), 23,  https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/pub/11f0019m/11f0019m2018402-eng.pdf?st=73EsECZ2.

 

Shortened Note

8. Prokopenko, How Temporary, 26.

Government Document

Bibliographic Form

British Columbia. Ministry of Health. Guidance for Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder. Victoria: Ministry of Health, 2017. http://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/pubdocs/bcdocs2017_2/681962/bc-ioat-guidelines-10.2017.pdf.

 

Footnote Form

8. British Columbia, Ministry of Health, Guidance for Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (Victoria: Ministry of Health, 2017), 7, http://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/pubdocs/bcdocs2017_2/681962/bc-ioat-guidelines-10.2017.pdf.

 

Shortened Note

9. British Columbia, Ministry of Health, Guidance for Injectable, 6.