Government Documents Reference Collection: GPO

By act of Congress the Public Printer of the U.S. Government Printing Office is authorized to determine the form and style of Government printing. The Style Manual is the product of many years of public printing experience, and its rules are based on principles of good usage and custom in the printing trade. Essentially, the Style Manual is a standardization device designed to achieve uniform word and type treatment, and aiming for economy of word use.

This listing is an approximately complete checklist of all public documents issued by the United States Government during the first century and a quarter of its history.

This guide provides an overview of the call number or classification system used for depository materials.

a consolidated collection of tables covering serials number 9740 through 13384

Numerical lists of the documents and reports

This is a finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Discontinued in print as of 1998, the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications serves the same purpose, and provides direct links to those current and historical documents that are available online.