Government and other reports
Notes:
- The names of organisations that serve as authors (corporate authors) are usually written out each time they appear in a text reference.
- When citing corporate authors, these are spelled out in the first reference and abbreviated in all subsequent citations. The general rule for abbreviating in this manner is to supply enough information in the text citation for a reader to locate its source in the reference list without difficulty.
For example:
First intext citation: (South African Bureau of Statistics [SABS], 2008)
Each subsequent citation: (SABS, 2008)
- If the issuing organisation assigned a number (e.g., report number, contract number, monograph number) to the report, give that number in parentheses immediately after the title. Do not italicise the report number.
- Where individual author/s are credited with writing the document, list them as author/s.
- Where the document has one or more individual authors, see the example under Research report/Discussion paper, below.
- Where there are no individual authors, include the organisation that is specifically responsible for creating government document as the corporate author.
- Include the name of parent organisation of corporate author as the publisher.
- Where the corporate author and the publisher are the same, omit the publisher.
- Provide as specific a date as possible.
- Where document is a website, end reference with URL.
