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Cody Chun, Kieran O’Neil, Kylie Young, Julie Nelson Christoph

Subsection 8.3.17 Citing a Government Document

This image shows the cover of a government document on the left and a screenshot of the webpage it was downloaded from on the right. At the top of the image is the URL in a search bar, with a yellow label that reads "URL." At the top of the left-hand document in large print is the text "Climate Change Indicators" with a blue label that reads "Title of document." Below the title in large print is the year "2016" with a light green label that reads "Year of publication." In small print under the year are the words "Fourth Edition" with a pink label that reads "Edition." To the left of the year is a logo that reads "EPA" with a red label that reads "Author" and a gray label that reads "Agency." On the website screenshot to the right, the text "United State Environmental Protection Agency" stretches across the top with a dark green label that reads "Title of website" and a purple label that reads "Publisher." In the lower right corner in small print is the text "1:30PM 8/27/2016," with a navy blue label that reads "Date accessed."

Subsubsection APA

Organization or Author Last Name, Initials. (Year of publication). Title of document. Retrieved from website name: http://www.website-url.com.

Environmental Protection Agency. (2014). Climate change indicators in the United States. Retrieved from Environmental Protection Agency website: https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/science/indicators/download.html

Subsubsection Chicago

Country. Agency. Title of document. By Author First Name Last Name. Edition (if any). Place of publication: Publisher, date.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Climate Change Indicators in the United States. By Environmental Protection Agency. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 2014.

Notes.

First appearance.
 41 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Climate Change Indicators in the United States, (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 2014), 25.
Nonconsecutive appearances.
 42 
U.S. EPA, Climate Change, 36.
For more information about how to insert footnotes, see Subsection 12.1.2.

Subsubsection MLA

Government entity that is author. Title of document. Edition if given and is not First edition, Publisher, Publication date. URL.

Environmental Protection Agency. Climate Change Indicators in the United States. Environmental Protection Agency, 2014. https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-07/documents/climateindicators-full-2014.pdf.

In-text: (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
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