Referencing Styles Guide @ UWC: Government publications

Basic structure:

Name of the country (jurisdiction). Year. Title of the Act. Place of Publication: Publisher [Acts].

South Africa. 1996. National Small Business Act, No.102 of 1996. Pretoria: Government Printers [Acts].

Note: Your reference is entered by the official name of the country. The full title of the act is in italics and every keyword is capitalized.

Basic structure: 

The entry element is the name of the government agency. Year. Title of the document is in italics. Mention the names of the authors who prepared the document. Place of Publication: The publisher is again the government agency.

Department of Education. 2007. Learner absenteeism in the South African schooling system. Research report prepared by WS Marinda, DLM Goga, IM Mayet & B Denise. Braamfontein: Department of Education.

Basic structure: 

Enter the reference by the name of the government agency with all keywords capitalized. Year of the document. Title of the document is in italics. Place of publication: Government agency is the publisher

Department of Transport. 2007. Rural transport strategy for South Africa. Pretoria: Department of Transport.

Basic structure: 

Enter the name of the main government agency as the author. Year of the document. Title of the document in italics. Give the name of the branch or division that produced the document. Place of publication: The name of the main government agency is again given as a publisher.

Include a “see reference” in your reference list, in addition to the main entry. e.g.

Tengeni report - see - Public Service Commission. 2011.

Basic structure:

Give the name of the body for which the report was produced. Year. Title of the report. (the name of the chairperson - in round brackets). Place of publication: Publisher.

Public Service Commission. 2011. Report on the trends analysis on complaints lodged with the Public Service Commission: 2005/2006 - 2009/2010 financial years. (Pelele Tengeni - Chairperson). Pretoria:Public Service Commission.

Include a “see reference” in your reference list, in addition to the main entry. e.g.

Bringing them home - see - National Inquiry into the seperation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their families.

Basic structure: 

State what the report was for. Year. Give the title of the report. (Give the name of the chairperson - in round brackets). Place of publication: Publisher.

National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their families. 1997.(Sir Ronald Wilson, President). Sydney: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.