Subject Guides: APA Citation Style (7th Edition): Government Reports & Statistics

Citing Government Documents or Reports

Refer to Section 10.4 of the APA Publication Manual, 7th edition, and the APA Style website for information on government agency references.

Ministry of Health. (2019). Health Annual Report 2018-2019. Government of Alberta. https://bit.ly/3hlEEdJ

MacLaurin, B., Trocmé, N., Fallon, B., Pitman, L., & McCormack, M. (2003). Northwest Territories incidence study of reported child abuse and neglect, NWTIS-2003: Major findings. University of Calgary. https://cwrp.ca/sites/default/files/publications/NWTIS2003_en_0.pdf
(Example from APA Citation Style QuickGuide.)

Data Set
Refer to Section 10.9 of the APA Publication Manual, 7th edition, and the APA Style website for information on data sets.

United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2008). Indiana income limits [Data file]. http://www.huduser.org/Datasets/IL/IL08/in_fy2008.pdf

Statistics

Numbers and Statistics in APA from the Purdue Online Writing Lab
How to Cite Statistics Canada Products (Statistics Canada)
Provides step by step guidelines on how to cite Statistics Canada publications. Note: Find the category that comes closest to describing the source you want to cite.

Organizations are Authors Too!

The "author" of resources such as reports or websites can be an organization or governing body (such as a government department). In these cases, the organization is the author and should be listed as such in your reference list entry and in-text citations.

DOIs and URLs

DOIs and URLs
Follow the guidelines on this APA Style page for including DOIs and URLs in references.

(See sections 9.34 to 9.36 of the APA Publication Manual, 7th ed.)

DOI or URL shorteners

It is acceptable to use the shortDOI service or a URL shortening service to shorten long links.
Always double check your links to make sure they go to the right location.

(See section 9.36 of the APA Publication Manual, 7th ed.)