Linking to FederalRegister.gov

If you are referencing documents on FederalRegister.gov you can link to them in a number of different ways depending on the document and your preferred pattern. These various patterns are explained below with examples.

Linking to FederalRegister.gov

Federal Register documents can be cited in a variety of ways; it may be convenient to link to FR content using the following URL patterns:

By FR Document Number:

All Federal Register documents are assigned a unique document number; you can link to them with the following pattern:

https://www.federalregister.gov/d/[FR Document Number]

https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2010-23166

And the link directly to the PDF file can also be easily generated:

https://www.federalregister.gov/d/[FR Document Number].pdf

https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2010-23166.pdf

By FR Citation:

You can construct a link based on a FR citation:

https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/[VOLUME]-FR-[PAGE]

https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/75-FR-56796

If multiple documents appear on the same page, the user can select between them:

https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/75-FR-56483

By Executive Order Number:

You can also construct a link to any Executive Order from 1995-present, starting with EO 12944

https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-order/[EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER]

https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-order/13446