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Reports: General notes

See the APA Referencing Style Guide - Reports for definitive examples of APA-compliant references.

  • Use the Book or Electronic Book reference type unless the report is numbered, in which case use the Report reference type which includes a Report Number field
     
  • If the report has a ​corporate author remember to add a comma at the end of the organisation name in the Author field
     
  • Corporate author abbreviations should appear in addition to the full name in the first in-text citation and instead of the full name thereafter
    • First citation:   ….as research indicates (Inland Revenue Department [IRD], 2007)
    • Subsequent citations:  .…suggested by recent statistics (IRD, 2010)
    • ​First citation: Endnote workaround
      • Highlight the citation, click Edit and Manage Citation(s) in the EndNote X8 tab
      • The edit citation box appears, use the formatting drop-down to select Exclude Author
      • In the Prefix box, enter the full author name plus the bracketed abbreviation, followed by a comma and a space, e.g., Inland Revenue Department [IRD]
  • Subsequent citations: Endnote workaround
    • Highlight the citation, click Edit and Manage Citation(s)
    • The edit citation box appears, use the formatting drop-down to select Exclude Author
    • In the Prefix box, enter the author abbreviation followed by a comma and a space, e.g., IRD,

Conferences: General notes

See the APA Referencing Style Guide - Conferences for definitive examples of APA-compliant references.

  • Published conferences can be treated as Book or Electronic Book reference types
  • Conference papers 
    • Use Book Section reference type for papers in one-off conferences
    • Use Journal Article or Electronic Article reference types for conference papers in regularly-published proceedings
  • Conference papers not formally published 
    • ​Use Conference Paper reference type
    • Enter the month the conference was held in the Date field and the year in the Year field
    • For Conference Location provide city and state or city and country for US / non-US locations, respectively, as in the example

Workarounds: Reports

Resource Reference type Instruction Example
Online report, numbered, publisher is not the author Report

In the Report Number field enter the report number e.g. Research Report No.06.3

In the URL field include the publisher's name as part of the retrieval statement e.g. Research on Poverty Allieviation website: http://www

Kessy, S. S. A., & Urio, F. M. (2006). The contribution of microfinance institutions to poverty reduction in Tanzania (Research Report No. 06.3). Retrieved from Research on Poverty Alleviation website: http://www.repoa.or.tz/documents_storage/
Publications/Reports/0.63_Kessy_and_Urio.pdf
Online report, numbered, publisher same is the author Report In the URL field enter only the URL

Ministry of Health. (2007). Diabetes surveillance: Population-based estimates and projections for New Zealand, 2001–2011 (Public Health Intelligence Occasional Bulletin No. 46). Retrieved from http://www.moh.govt.nz/
moh.nsf/pagesmh/6796/$File/diabetes-suveillance-population-estimates-projections
-2001-2011.pdf
Annual report from a website Electronic Book (or Report) Link to the pdf

Radio New Zealand. (2008). Annual report 2007-2008. Retrieved from http://static.radionz.net.nz/assets/
pdf_file/0010/1796761/Radio_NZ_Annual_Report_2008.pdf
Annual report from a database Electronic Book (or Report) In the URL field include the database homepage URL but take out the ezproxy and anything after it

Air New Zealand. (2017). Annual shareholder review. Retrieved from https://companyresearch-nzx-com

 

Workarounds: Conferences

Resource Reference type Instruction Example
Conference location   

In Conference Location field enter City and Country for non-US locations, or City and State code for US
  • Location outside the USA, for example Venice, Italy
  • Location in USA, for example Jackson Hole, WY
Conference paper not formally published but available online (described as " the meeting of the organisation") Conference Paper

In the Conference Name field enter the name of the organisation e.g. Association of Internet Researchers

In the Type field enter Paper

Markman, K. M. (2003, October). Taking the flesh with me: Embodied interaction as a framework for studying Internet communication. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers, Toronto, Canada. Retrieved from https://umdrive.memphis.edu/
kmmrkman/www/KMarkmanAOIR4Paper.pdf
Conference paper in regularly published proceedings, retrieved online

Electronic Article 

or

Journal Article

If the paper does not have a DOI number, include the URL for the homepage of the proceedings, as for a journal article.  Do not include both DOI and URL..

Herculano-Houzel, S., Collins, C. E., Wong, P., Kaas, J. H., & Lent, R. (2008). The basic nonuniformity of the cerebral cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 12593–12598. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0805417105