Library Guides @ VIU: Citing Your Sources: Citing Gov & Legal Docs

This guide offers information to assist with citing government publications and legal documents.

In addition to consulting this information, it is important to consider that your citations for these kinds of publications should be consistent with the style used for other sources in your paper (e.g. APA, Chicago, Council of Science Editors, Harvard, MLA, etc.)

Citing Government & Legal Documents: Selected Books

Canadian guide to uniform legal citation, 9th ed.
Call Number: KE 259 C36 2018
Nanaimo
Cowichan

Citing Government & Legal Documents: Selected Online Resources

Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide, 2024
The COAL Citation Guide originated with two primary drivers: the belief that we could create a citation guide that will better meet the needs of Canadian legal writers and researchers and the goal of creating a citation guide that will be accessible to everyone, via an open access publishing model. We had a forerunner that provided the nucleus of this guide, the University of British Columbia Law Library Legal Citation Guide...
Citing Treaties | UBC Library - Aboriginal Treaties Research Guide
Citing Canadian Government Documents - APA Style | SFU Library
Brief Guide to Citing Canadian Government Documents | Queens University, Madgic Library
Includes a template for basic citation form and explanation of the citation elements, together with examples of citations by broad class of material.
Legal Research Manual: Legal Citation | Queen's University, Lederman Law Library
Citing Court Decisions in APA Style | APA Style Blog
2013 October 3
How to Cite Government Publications | McMaster University Library
Discusses composition of citations and offers sample citations for Canada and United Nations publications.
Legal Citation & APA | Camosun College Library
Including how to cite cases, legislation, and bills.
Citing Indigenous Legal Documents
APA recommendations following Canadian McGill Style Guide.