Citing government documents in Chicago style generally depends upon the type of document being cited. A detailed model of how to appropriately cite government documents was created by Bowdoin College Library.
The more general example for a government document for the Biblography page would be:
Chicago Citation Format
(Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., sections 17.270, 17.295)
Structure:
- Author’s last name, first name, middle initial (if given).
- Title of document (subsection is placed in quotes, followed by title in italics).
- Format (omit if it is a printed page).
- Publisher city: publishing company, copyright date (include as much information as possible such as page numbers).
- Source (From Library of Congress in normal font), Collection name (in italics). If no collection name, name of division where item is housed with no punctuation.
- Medium.
- URL (use bibliographic record URL or shorter digital id if available at bottom of bibliographic record).
- Accessed date (in parenthesis).