Answered By: Amber Hinds
Last Updated: Apr 10, 2025     Views: 101809

When citing a webpage about the Declaration or Constitution, use the webpage citation format.

When citing the documents themselves, do not include them in your works cited list—they’re considered well-known. Just use parenthetical references in your text, like:

  • (US 1776)

  • (U.S. Const., art. 2, sec. 1, cl. 3)

  • (US Const., amend. XIII)

Also, don’t underline or put the document titles in quotes—just refer to them plainly in your writing.

Comments (2)

  1. What if the declaration is lesser known, such as the Declaration of Helsinki? (a declaration about the ethics of human research) Surely there must be some way to integrate it into the Works Cited page, right?
    by Oneilmw on Apr 06, 2017
  2. @Oneilmw - if you are a Walsh student, please feel free to email the Library with the link to this document and we can help you format your citation. Most likely you would want to cite it as a government document. These can be tricky regardless of citation style. But without the document in front of me, I do not want to speculate.
    by Katie Hutchison on Apr 17, 2017

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