Cite an order

Exhibit ID of the instrument to cite

Type the ID from a record page, or start typing and pick from the list. Without an ID the page shows an example.

Try: TX-004 MET-NYC-001 AGY-ST-ALCOHOL-001 DUT-TX-001 SEC-05-GM-001 LAW-101

The instrument

Ex. TX-004 Order Primary source read

Executive Order GA-09

Relating to hospital capacity during the COVID-19 disaster

Issuer: Governor Greg Abbott
Jurisdiction: Texas
Issued: Mar. 22, 2020
Effective: 2020-03-22 (immediately)
End: 2020-04-21 11:59 p.m. (followed by GA-15 from 2020-04-21 11:59 p.m.)
Limitations: Business closureHealth care orders
Quarters: 2020 Q2

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Its citations

Full citation to The COVID Project

The COVID Project, Orders Library, Ex. TX-004, https://covidproject.com/library/TX-004 (last visited Sept. 30, 2026).

Use this form the first time you cite the instrument as it appears in the Library. The record page is the stable address; it carries the issuer, the dates, the operative words, the source and the exhibit file.

The Library's own form

Governor Greg Abbott, Executive Order GA-09 (Mar. 22, 2020) (Ex. TX-004)

This is the form The COVID Project uses in every list, table and report: issuer, instrument, date, exhibit. Use it in a footnote or a table once the full citation has appeared.

Bluebook-style citation of the instrument

Governor Greg Abbott, Executive Order GA-09, Relating to hospital capacity during the COVID-19 disaster (Mar. 22, 2020), https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/govdocs/Greg%20Abbott/2020/GA-09.pdf, reproduced at The COVID Project, Ex. TX-004, https://covidproject.com/library/TX-004.

Author (the issuing authority), title (the instrument, then its subject where the record gives one), date, the source where the instrument was retrieved, and where it is reproduced. The archived copy, when the record holds one, follows in brackets, as rule 18.2.1(d) asks.

Short form

Executive Order GA-09 (Ex. TX-004).

After the full citation, the exhibit ID alone identifies the instrument on this site: Ex. TX-004.

The document itself

https://covidproject.com/exhibit/TX-004

This address streams the exhibit file as The COVID Project retrieved it, 372 KB, with the ID and a short title in the file name. Cite it when the reader needs the document rather than the record.

The record's fields are also available as JSON at /api/record/TX-004. Instrument named: Executive Order GA-09.

The Library

Cite the Library

The Library as a whole

The COVID Project, Orders Library, https://covidproject.com/library (last visited Sept. 30, 2026).

For the collection itself: its scope, its method or a count. Counts are what The COVID Project has indexed, so quote them with the date you read them.

A search or a filtered list

The COVID Project, Orders Library, Texas business-closure instruments in force in the third quarter of 2021, https://covidproject.com/library?state=TX&type=CLOSE&quarter=2021Q3 (last visited Sept. 30, 2026).

Describe the selection in words, then give the address that reproduces it. Every Library list and every report carries its own address for this purpose.

The analyses

Cite the analyses

An analysis page

The COVID Project, The Statute, https://covidproject.com/law/statute (last visited Sept. 30, 2026).

Author, title in italics, address, date visited. Add the heading after a pound sign when you point to one section: the headings on every analysis page carry stable anchors, for example https://covidproject.com/law/statute#the-clause-controls.

One of the fourteen grounds

The COVID Project, The Fourteen Grounds: Ground 3, https://covidproject.com/irs/fourteen-grounds/3 (last visited Sept. 30, 2026).

Each ground has its own page and number. Quote the Service's sentence exactly as the page quotes it, then the instruments the page sets beside it by their exhibit IDs.

A quotation from the United States' filings

Cite the filing itself by the pin shown beside the quotation (the document number and page, for example Doc. 44 at 19), with the case name and court the page gives; then, if the reader needs it, as reproduced at The COVID Project, In the Government's Own Words, https://covidproject.com/irs/own-words (last visited Sept. 30, 2026).

The filings are public court documents. The COVID Project reproduces the words and the pin so a reader can check them; the citation belongs to the filing.

How the IDs work

What an exhibit ID tells you

Every record carries one ID. The prefix says which part of the record it came from, and the number is fixed: the address /library/TX-004 will keep pointing to the same instrument. The exhibit file, when The COVID Project holds it, streams from /exhibit/TX-004 with the ID in the file name.

Prefix	What it is	Example
TX- (a State code)	A State's orders: governor, health department, county and city instruments and the courts that construed them	TX-004
MET-NYC-	A metropolitan area's county and city instruments	MET-NYC-017
FED-A-, FED-B-	The federal layer: CDC, OSHA, FAA, CMS, the ports and the border	FED-A-001
AGY-	An agency cluster: courts, licensing boards, alcohol regulators, tribal and territorial governments	AGY-ST-ALCOHOL-001
SEC-05-	A sector regulator's instrument for one of the twenty-seven industries	SEC-05-012
SEC-05-GM-	An organizer's notice of a cancelled trade show, convention or season	SEC-05-GM-001
DUT-TX-, DUT-FED-	A standing statutory duty: the law that made every order mandatory	DUT-TX-001
ECO-	The interconnected economy: instruments that reached a business through its suppliers, customers and carriers	ECO-A-121
LAW-	A legal authority: statutes, notices, rules and decisions	LAW-101
GOV-	A filing of the United States in the two federal cases the site follows	GOV-009

The date you visited

Citations to a web page end with the date it was read. This page fills in today, Sept. 30, 2026; change it to the day you actually read the record. The record pages do not change once published, so the date is a courtesy to the reader, not a warning.

What the grade means

Each record shows whether The COVID Project read the primary source itself (“Primary source read”) or confirmed the instrument from a secondary source (“Confirmed from a secondary source”). Only records of those two grades are published. When the grade matters to your reader, say which it was.

Quoting the operative words

Every record carries the instrument's operative words as written. Quote them from the record page or, better, from the exhibit file itself, and cite the instrument, not the site, as their source. Cite The COVID Project as the place you found it.

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