A manual was developed to give "some rational guidance in citing procedures for United States government publications." The manual calls for full citations, rather than abbreviations in order to ease the task of identifying and locating a document. Directions are given for bibliographic citations of: general publication; Congressional publication; Presidential publications; laws, regulations, treaties, Supreme Court decisions, and the Constitution; as well as periodicals. Appendixes contain a selected list of style manuals and sample bibliographic citations. (DGC/JY)