Citation Format for Declassified Documents
July 9, 2014 6:35 AM Subscribe
What's the best way to cite declassified, partially redacted, government memorandum, using Chicago Manual of Style format?
I have about 30 declassified memos from the CIA from the late 1950s, all of which had some information removed from them prior to declassification.
- They're all from the CIA
- All have the date when they were written
- Almost all have a subject line (the rest have a subject line that's been redacted)
- Some have who the memo was written for (job title, if not name)
- Only one or two have who the memo was written by (job title, not name)
- All are stamped with the public release date and a reference number
I've gone to my normal reference guides and come up empty. Any suggestions how best to format notes and citations?
I have about 30 declassified memos from the CIA from the late 1950s, all of which had some information removed from them prior to declassification.
- They're all from the CIA
- All have the date when they were written
- Almost all have a subject line (the rest have a subject line that's been redacted)
- Some have who the memo was written for (job title, if not name)
- Only one or two have who the memo was written by (job title, not name)
- All are stamped with the public release date and a reference number
I've gone to my normal reference guides and come up empty. Any suggestions how best to format notes and citations?
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posted by Etrigan at 6:52 AM on July 9, 2014