CITING REAGAN LIBRARY RECORDS

Citations should identify items clearly, specify their file locations, and end with reference to the Ronald Reagan Library. Citation examples for different collections are listed below:

For the WHORM Subject File:

Letter, Ronald Reagan to Daniel James, Feb. 6, 1984, ID #183417, ND016, WHORM:

Subject File, Ronald Reagan Library

For the WHORM Alpha File:

Telegram, Daniel K. Inouye to George P. Shultz, March 7, 1985, folder "Inouye, Daniel K.," WHORM: Alpha File, Ronald Reagan Library

For Staff Member and Office File collections:

Memo, Elizabeth Dole to Edwin Meese, Sept. 5, 1984, folder "Air Traffic Control (AT 6605),"

box OA 11850, Edwin Meese Files, Ronald Reagan Library

For Ronald Reagan Governor’s Papers:

Public Opinion Poll, by Republican National Committee, April 29, 1968, folder “Polls: 1968

(1 of 2),” Box 16, Research Unit, Ronald Reagan Governor’s Papers, Ronald Reagan Library.

Report, “Program Standards for Early and Periodic Screening: Medi-Screen,” folder, ibid,

Box H27, Agency Library, Health and Welfare Agency, Ronald Reagan Governor’s Papers, Ronald Reagan Library.

For Reagan Library Website:

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. “Chronology of Ronald Reagan’s Presidency, 1979-89.”

/archives/reference/preschrono.html (accessed 18 May 2005)

“Remarks on East-West Relations at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin June 12, 1987.”

The Public Papers of President Ronald W. Reagan. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. /archives/speeches/1987/061287d.htm (accessed 18 May 2005)

For Vertical File:

Use a citation format appropriate for the original publication but include [Reference Copy from Vertical File, Ronald Reagan Library]

For Oral Histories:

Audio tape, WH exit interview with Edwin Harper, July 5, 1983, Oral History – WH Exit Interviews, Ronald Reagan Library

For the Student Research File:

Memo, Fred F. Fielding to James A. Baker III, June 15, 1983, ID # 68, Student Research Files: PATCO, Ronald Reagan Library