Citing Materials from the Jimmy Carter Library

It is extremely important that researchers employ an adequate form of footnote citation. A clear, consistent form of citation will assist the Carter Libary staff in finding the document for a researcher who wishes to reexamine it or for other researchers who wish to see it. Regardless of footnote style, each citation should contain the following elements:

• Type of document
• Names of sender and recipient or title of document
• Date of document
• Folder title
• Box Number (note: box numbers sometimes change, and items should never be identified only by box number)
• Collection title
• Jimmy Carter Library

EXAMPLES:

• White House Central File, Subject File:
  
  Memo, Bob Lipshutz and Stu Eizenstat to President Carter, 3/23/79, "CA 7 Ex." folder, Box CA-14, WHCF-Subject File, Jimmy Carter Library.
  
  
• White House Central File, Name File:
  
  Letter, Reid Bondurant to President Carter, 2/15/77, "Bondurant" folder, WHCF-Name File, Jimmy Carter Library.
  
  
• Correspondence Tracking
  
  Letter, Sharon Slepicka to Eugene Eidenberg, 8/29/80, File No. 077387, Box 211, WHCF-Correspondence Tracking, Jimmy Carter Library.
  
  
• White House Staff Office Files:
  
  Memo, Jody Powell to Frank Moore, 6/22/77, "Memoranda--Moore, Frank, 1/28/77-6/22/77 [CF, O/A 55]" folder, Box 46, Jody Powell's Files, Jimmy Carter Library.
  
  
• Donated Historical Material:
  
  List, Organizations Endorsing SALT II, 11/9/79, "Carter Administration Efforts" folder, Box 3, George D. Moffett Collection, Jimmy Carter Library.
  
  
• Federal Records:
  
  Bob Kuttner's Position Description, "Staff Descriptions" folder, Box 1, Records of the National Commission on Neighborhoods, RG 220, Jimmy Carter Library.
  
  
• Oral Histories:
  
  Hedley Donovan Interview, 8/14/80, White House Staff Exit Interviews, p. 10, Jimmy Carter Library.
  
  
• Audiovisual Materials:
  
  Film, "Bill Sign; Rhodesia Chrome," 3/18/77, 87/00360-7M-0330, U.S. Naval Photographic Center Collection, Jimmy Carter Library.
  
  Audiotape, "Remarks of the President upon Arrival at Orly Airport," 1/4/78, PRESUS Tape No. 522, White House Communications Agency Collection, Jimmy Carter Library.
  
  
• Photographs:
  
  Please use the following credit line: Courtesy: Jimmy Carter Library.

Citing Files on the WWW: From The Columbia Guide to Online Style

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