APA 7th Style:  Reports & Gov docs

Reports

Reference list examples:

Active Healthy Kids Australia. (2016). Physical literacy: Do our kids have all the tools? 2016 report card on physical activity for children and young people. https://doi.org/10.4226/78/57AAD6BD49165

Babor, T. F., Higgins-Biddle, J. C., Saunders, J. B., & Monteiro, M. G. (2001). The alcohol use disorders identification test: Guidelines for use in primary care. World Health Organisation. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2001/who_msd_msb_01.6a.pdf

Kitson, A., Conroy, T., Kuluski, K., Locock, L., & Lyons, R. (2013). Reclaiming and redefining the fundamentals of care: Nursing’s response to meeting patients’ basic human needs (Research Report No. 2). University of Adelaide.

Queensland Health. (2005). Health systems review: Final report.

United Nations. (2013). The Millennium Development Goals report 2013. http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/report-2013/mdg-report-2013-english.pdf

In-text

Every time you paraphrase, or use an idea from another source you must include an in-text citation to that source.
Follow the general patterns:  (Author Surname, Year)  or  (Corporate Author, Year)

Example:

Australian education providers will need to address a number of challenges to ensure standards of special education are fully supporting students with special needs and their families (University of Melbourne, 2012).

Where a corporate author's name is known by a common acronym (e.g. AIHW for Australian Institute for Health and Welfare) and you will be using this author multiple times in your text, you can use the following pattern.

For the first in-text citation, include the full name plus the acronym in square brackets, in the format:  (Corporate Author [CA], Year)

Example:

"Over half of people aged 15 years and older (56%) considered their overall health to be very good or excellent, and 29% stated that their health was good" (Australian Institute for Health and Welfare [AIHW], 2018, p. 3).

In subsequent in-text citations, include just the acronym:  (CA, Year)

Example:
... 19% of people aged 18 years and over were current daily smokers (AIHW, 2018).

Direct Quotations

If you include a direct quote, that is word-for-word from a source, add a page reference to your in-text citation, e.g.:

“These films absorb, through a collage of images, traces of the Italian inheritance of neo-realist cinema” (Acciari, 2014, p. 14).

NOTE: Use "p" when quoting from one page - for example (Acciari, 2014, p. 14), and "pp" when quoting from more than one page - for example (Wessel, 2015, pp. 53-54).

White papers

Reference list examples:

Australian Psychological Society. (2019). The future of psychology in Australia: A blueprint for better mental health outcomes for all Australians through Medicare [White paper]. https://www.psychology.org.au/getmedia/a1c6fc1f-8356-471c-9247-36832da61299/APS-White-Paper-The-Future-of-Psychology-in-Australia-June-2019-FINAL.pdf

Furst, M., & DeMillo, R. A. (2006). Creating symphonic-thinking computer science graduates for an increasingly competitive global environment [White paper]. Georgia Tech College of Computing. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/Threads%20 Whitepaper.pdf

In-text

Every time you paraphrase, or use an idea from another source you must include an in-text citation to that source.
Follow the general patterns:  (Author Surname, Year)  or  (Corporate Author, Year)

Example:

Australian education providers will need to address a number of challenges to ensure standards of special education are fully supporting students with special needs and their families (University of Melbourne, 2012).

Direct Quotations

If you include a direct quote, that is word-for-word from a source, add a page reference to your in-text citation, e.g.:

“These films absorb, through a collage of images, traces of the Italian inheritance of neo-realist cinema” (Acciari, 2014, p. 14).

NOTE: Use "p" when quoting from one page - for example (Acciari, 2014, p. 14), and "pp" when quoting from more than one page - for example (Wessel, 2015, pp. 53-54).

Government documents and reports

For press releases, policy briefs and directives, fact sheets, pamphlets, etc., refer to the Web resources page.

General rules:

Government documents and reports

Reference list examples:

Agency for Clinical Innovation. (2011). Maternity: Management of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (Document No. PD2011_064). NSW Health.

https://www1.health.nsw.gov.au/pds/ActivePDSDocuments/PD2011_064.pdf

Australian Institute of Health Welfare. (2021). Australian burden of disease study: Impact and causes of illness and death in Australia 2018 (Catalogue number BOD 29).

https://doi.org/10.25816/5ps1-j259

Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources. (2021). Future fuels and vehicle strategy.

https://www.industry.gov.au/sites/default/files/November%202021/document/future-fuels-and-vehicles-strategy.pdf

National health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council, & Universities Australia. (2018). National statement on ethical conduct in human research 2007 (Updated May 2018).

https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/guidelines-publications/e72

The last example above shows how to format multiple department authors.

In-text

Every time you paraphrase, or use an idea from another source you must include an in-text citation to that source.
Follow the general patterns:  (Author Surname, Year)  or  (Government Department, Year)

Example:

Australian education providers will need to address a number of challenges to ensure standards of special education are fully supporting students with special needs and their families (Department of Education and Training, 2012).

Where a corporate author's name is known by a common acronym (e.g. AIHW for Australian Institute for Health and Welfare) and you will be using this author multiple times in your text, you can use the following pattern.

For the first in-text citation, include the full name plus the acronym in square brackets, in the format:  (Corporate Author [CA], Year)

Example:

"Over half of people aged 15 years and older (56%) considered their overall health to be very good or excellent, and 29% stated that their health was good" (Australian Institute for Health and Welfare [AIHW], 2018, p. 3).

In subsequent in-text citations, include just the acronym:  (CA, Year)

Example:
... 19% of people aged 18 years and over were current daily smokers (AIHW, 2018).

Direct Quotations

If you include a direct quote, that is word-for-word from a source, add a page reference to your in-text citation, e.g.:

“These films absorb, through a collage of images, traces of the Italian inheritance of neo-realist cinema” (Acciari, 2014, p. 14).

NOTE: Use "p" when quoting from one page - for example (Acciari, 2014, p. 14), and "pp" when quoting from more than one page - for example (Wessel, 2015, pp. 53-54).

Pamphlets and brochures (print)

Pamphlets and brochures (online)