This Subject Guide will help students locate the fundamental documents that grant and govern the intelligence activities of the United States Intelligence Community (USIC).
A Congressional Research Services report without an individual author:
Congressional Research Services. (Date). Title. (CRS Report No. RLxxxxx). https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdfRLxxxxx.
Citations for Legal Materials
In Chapter 11, the APA Manual (7th edition) provides examples of citations to legal materials, including cases, statutes, legislative materials, and administrative and executive materials. For more information on writing legal citations, consult The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (21st edition).
Case (Court Decision). Reference form: Name v. Name, Volume Reporter First Page (year).
Reference page citation example: Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005). https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/543/03-633/index.pdf
(Note: You may include the URL from which you retrieved the case information after the year. This is not strictly required for legal citations, but may aid readers in retrieval.)
In-text citation example: Roper v. Simmons (2005) or (Roper v. Simmons, 2005)
Statute. Reference form: Name of Act, Volume Code abbrev. § Section number (1987).
(Note: You may include the URL from which you retrieved the statute after the year. This is not strictly required for legal citations, but may aid readers in retrieval.)
