APA 7th Citation Guide

Author Element

• Use the most specific government agency for the group author or publisher: You may find several layers of government agencies listed as the group author. Use the most specific agency as the author in the reference, e.g. use National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, not U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.
• If multiple agencies jointly authored a report, connect the names with an ampersand, i.e. an &, followed by commas to separate the names of three or more agencies

Date Element

• ​Provide the year of publication, month, and day if available.
• If only the year of publication is available (quite common), then just provide the year.

Title Element

• Provide the report or publication no. if available: If there is a report or publication number, provide that after the title. If the report:
  • Specifies the type of report it is, then provide that info, e.g. (NIH Publication No. 18-2424).
  • Does not specify, then simply note the report no., e.g. (Report No. 125).

• Ensure your punctuation is correct:

  • Report title: Write the title of the report in sentence case and in italics.
  • Report numbers, if applicable: Report numbers are in parentheses and in title case, i.e. each word is capitalized, e.g. (Report No. 125); (NIH Publication No. 18-2424).

​​​​​​​Source Element

• If the publisher is the same as the author: Omit the publisher. 
• Insert the stable URL to the report itself - not to the database link - after the report title: For example, if the report is a PDF document you found on the web, then provide a stable URL to the PDF. If you found the report in a library database, do not include the URL to the database record. 

Format

Group Author. (Year, Month, Day of publication). Title of report in sentence case (Type of Report/Publication No. # in Title Case). https://doi.org/xxxx 

Group Author. (Year, Month, Day publication). Title of report in sentence case (Type of Report/Publication No. # in Title Case). http://xxxx - to the webpage or PDF, not to a library database link

Examples

Reports with DOI

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2020). Opportunities to improve opioid use disorder and infections disease services: Integrating responses to a dual epidemic. https://doi.org/10.17226/25626

Reports from nondatabase URL

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. (2019). Helping patients who drink too much - a clinician's guide. (NIH Publication No. 19-AA-3769). https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/sites/default/files/publications/guide.pdf

National Park Service. (2019). Casa Grande Ruins national monument: National resource condition assessment. (National Resource Report No. NPS/SODN/NRR - 2019/1979). https://irma.nps.gov/Datastore/DownloadFile/628998

Format

Reports with DOI

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year, month day of publication). Title of report in sentence case (Type of Report/Publication No. # ). Title of Specific Government Agency or Organization in Title Case. https://doi.org/xxxx

Reports from nondatabase URL

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B.  (Year, month day of publication). Title of report in sentence case (Type of Report/Publication No. # ). Title of Specific Government Agency or Organization in Title Case. http://xxxx

Examples

Reports from nondatabase URL

Erberber, E., & Stephens, M., Hooper, M., Tsokodayi, Y.,  Fonesca, F., & Correa, S. (2020). U.S. highlighted results from the 2018 Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) of teachers and principals in lower secondary schools (Grades 7-9) (NCES Publication No. 2020069). National Center for Education Statistics. https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/talis/talis2018/default.asp

Specific Guidelines

• If the report is by individual authors at an organization, include the group that the authors wrote the report for after the series information.

Format - By Group Author

Reports with DOI

Group Author. (Year of publication). Title of report in sentence case (Series Title, Series #, Issue # in Title Case). https://doi.org/xxxx

Reports without DOI

Group Author. (Year of publication). Title of report in sentence case  (Series Title, Series #, Issue # in Title Case). http://xxxx

Format - By individual authors at an organization

Reports with DOI

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of publication). Title of report in sentence case (Series Title, Series #, Issue # in Title Case). Organization Report is For in Title Case. https://doi.org/xxxx

Reports from nondatabase URL

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of publication). Title of report in sentence case (Series Title, Series #, Issue # in Title Case). Organization Report is For. http://xxxx

Examples

Reports with DOI

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development & European Union Intellectual Property Office. (2020). Trade in counterfeit pharmaceutical products (Illicit Trade Series). https://doi.org/10.1787/a7c7e054-en

Haberman, S. J., Liu, Y., Lee, Y-H. (2019). Distractor analysis for multiple-choice tests: An empirical study with international language assessment data  (Educational Testing Service [ETS] Research Report Series). ETS. https://doi.org/10.1002/ets2.12275

Reports from nondatabase URL

National Council on Disability. (2019). Genetic testing and the rush to perfection (Bioethics and Disability Report Series). https://ncd.gov/sites/default/files/NCD_Genetic_Testing_Report_508.pdf

Chai, J., & Nayak, T. K. (2019).  Minimax randomized response methods for providing local differential privacy (Research Report Statistics Series 2019-04).  Center for Statistical Research and Methodology. https://www.census.gov/srd/papers/pdf/RRS2019-04.pdf

Specific Guidelines

• Include the group that the task force/working group/other group belongs to after the title unless that group is included in the Task Force Group Author name. 

Format

Task Force Group Author. (Year of publication). Title of report in sentence case (Type of Report/Publication No. # ). Group Task Force Belongs To. https://doi.org/xxxx

Task Force Group Author. (Year of publication). Title of report in sentence case (Type of Report/Publication No. # ). Group Task Force Belongs To. http://xxxx - to the webpage or PDF, not the database link

Examples

Reports from nondatabase URL

Task Force on the Sexualization of Popular Music. (2018). Report on the sexualization of popular music. Division 46 (Society for Media Psychology & Technology) of the American Psychological Association. https://www.apadivisions.org/division-46/publications/popular-music-sexualization.pdf?_ga=2.12512054.384659725.1586198316-1323074279.1584712545

American Psychological Association Task Force on Guidelines for Master's Programs in Psychology. (2018).  APA guidelines on core learning goals for master's degree graduates in psychology. https://www.apa.org/about/policy/masters-goals-guidelines.pdf

Format

Reports with DOI

Group Author. (Year of publication). Title of report in sentence case. https://doi.org/xxxx

Reports from nondatabase URL

Group Author. (Year of publication). Title of report in sentence case. http://xxxx

Examples

Reports with DOI

Crossref. (2019). Fact file: 2018-2019 annual report. https://doi.org/10.13003/y8ygwm5

Reports from nondatabase URL

Macy's, Inc. (2020). Annual report pursuant to section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. https://www.macysinc.com/investors/sec-filings/annual-reports/content/0000794367-20-000040/0000794367-20-000040.pdf

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