Subject Guides: APA Citation Style (7th Edition): Government & Organization Docs

Government and Organization Reports and Statistics

Template

A reference to a report by a government agency or other organization should be formatted like this template:

Authors. (Year of publication). Title of report. Publisher. DOI or public URL

Note: The author 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. For more information about citing reports, see the APA Manual, section 10.4; and the APA Style website.

Examples

Report with group author

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

Report with individual author

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

Data set

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

Note: For more information on data sets, see the APA Manual, section 10.9; and Data Set References on the APA Style website.

Statistics

Numbers and Statistics in APA from the Purdue Online Writing Lab
Includes guidelines for citing numbers and statistics.
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.
Citing Data
This page includes links to multiple guides for citing data sources.

Non-Profit and Other Organizational Documents

In-house institutional and corporate documents fall into the Archival Documents and Collections category, as shown on the APA Style website.

Meeting minutes for a nonprofit organization

Elements to include

Author: organization, name of committee

Date: date of the meeting

Title: The heading at the top of the first page

Publication information: Location details necessary to retrieve the source

Example

Paperboard Packaging Council. (2008, July 9). Meeting of the PPC Board of Directors. Archives of the American Forest Products Association, Washington, DC.

An organization's training handbook

This can be handled simply as a book. For example:

Federation of American Zookeepers. (2010). How to scoop the elephant poop (and other helpful tips for beginning zookeepers). Washington, DC: Author.

An organization's constitution or terms of reference

These would most likely be found on the organization’s website. For example:

American Psychological Association. (2010). Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct. http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx

Brochure

Follow the standard Author, Date, Title, Source format, but include the description [Brochure] after the title, as shown in the Brochure References section of the APA Style website.