Suggested Citation Styles for our Internet Information

HTML, ASCII, or PDF files
Dynamically generated tables/files
FTP files
E-mail
Other Sources


For HTML, ASCII, or PDF files:

  1. Author (last name, first name)--if applicable, followed by "U.S. Census Bureau;"1
  2. Within quotation marks, title of census survey source or output/work, and/or html title (if different from the previous title);
  3. If available, the publication/issue/release (or "last revised") date, e.g., "published 27 December 1996;"
  4. Universal resoure locator (URL) of the tile page, if applicable, or the page where cited material appears--this should be set off by angle brackets (< >);
  5. If there is no visible publication date, you may note the date, within parenthesis, when you accessed the data, e.g., "(accessed: 7 January 1997)."

1Use semicolons to separate elements.

Examples:

Citing a .txt or .html file:

U.S. Census Bureau; "Advance Data from the Quarterly Financial Report for Manufacturing, Mining, and Trade Corporations--First Quarter 1993;" published June 1993, <http://www.census.gov/agfs/qfr/view/qfr931mg.txt>

U.S.Census Bureau; "1995 State Tax Collection Data by State;" published 25 September 1996; <http://www.census.gov/govs/www/sttax95.html>

Citing a specific table:

U.S. Census Bureau; "The Foreign-Born Population, (Table) 1. Selected Characteristics of the Population by Citizenship: 1994;" published 4 October 1996; <http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/foreign.html>

Citing a .pdf file:

U.S. Census Bureau; Population Projections of the United States by Age, Sex, and Hispanic Origin: 1995 to 2050; <http://www.census.gov/prod/www/titles.html#popest>; (accessed: 10 January 1997)

Citing a definition:

U.S. Census Bureau; "Glossary of Decennial Census Terms and Acronyms;" published 10 February 1997; <http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/glossary.html>

For Dynamically Generated Tables/Files:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau;2
  2. Name of the database or other data repository/source (e.g., Data Access and Dissemination System [DADS], Survey of Income and Program Participation [SIPP], TIGER Mapping Service, etc.), set off by quotation marks, or follow publication citation style;
  3. The name of the person who generates the extraction, tabulation, etc., e.g., "generated by John Smith;"
  4. The name of the software package used to generate the extract, tabulation, etc., if known, e.g., "using Data Extraction System;"
  5. The URL of the application software's main or first page set off by angle brackets, e.g., <http://www.census.gov/des/p1>;
  6. The date, within parenthesis, when the user generated the extract, tabulation, etc., e.g., (7 January 1997).

2Use semicolons to separate elements.

Examples:

U.S. Census Bureau; American Housing Survey; generated by John Smith; using Data Extraction System; <http://www.census.gov/des/p1>; (7 January 1997).

U.S. Census Bureau; Current Population Survey; generated by Jane Jones; using FERRET; <http://ferret.bls.census.gov/cgi-bin/ferret>; (1 February 1997)

U.S. Census Bureau; 1990 Census of Population and Housing, Summary Tape File 3A;" generated by John Smith; using 1990 Census Lookup; <http://venus.census.gov/cdrom/lookup>; (12 February 1997).

For FTP files:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau;3
  2. Filename, e.g., "stp222.06;"
  3. File date, if available, e.g., "published 10 January 1997;"
  4. Universal resource locator (URL), set off by angle brackets (< >), of page where cited material appears, e.g., <ftp://ftp.census.gov/housing>;
  5. If no file date found, the date, within parenthesis, when the user accesed the data, e.g.: (accessed: 7 January 1997).

3Use semicolons to separate elements.

Examples:

U.S. Census Bureau; stp222.06; <ftp://ftp.census.gov/housing>; (accessed: 7 January 1997).

U.S. Census Bureau; M20a9611.wk1; published 7 January 1997; <ftp://www.census.gov/pub/industry/M20a9611.txt>.

For E-mail:

  1. Message author's name (last name, first name, middle initial), e.g., "Smith, John T.; 4
  2. Words "personal e-mail";
  3. U.S. Census Bureau;
  4. Subject from subject line of e-mail message, e.g., subject: fertility statistics;"
  5. Date e-mail sent, e.g., "7 January 1997."

4Use semicolons to separate elements.

Example:

Smith, John T.; personal e-mail; U.S. Census Bureau; subject: fertility statistics; 7 January 1997.

Other Sources for Citation Styles:

Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Last Revised: Friday, 02-Feb-2001 13:28:34 EST

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