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APA (7th ed.), Citation Style: Reports and Standards

Reports & Gray Literature

There are many different types of reports, and the examples below are only three of the types of reports that you may come across when doing research. For more information/examples, please see Ch. 10 of the APA manual 7th ed., Section 10.4.

Report Format Template:

Author, A.A. & Author, B.B. (Date). Title. Publisher Information. DOI or URL

Name of Group. (Date). Title. Publisher information. DOI or URL

Report by a Government Agency:

National Cancer Institute. (2018). Facing forward: Life after cancer treatment (NIH Publication No. 18-2424). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health. https://www.cnacer.gov/publications/patient-education/life-after-treatment.pdf

Code of Ethics:

American Counseling Association (2014). 2014 ACA code of ethics. https://www.counseling.org/knowledge-center

Report by individual authors at a government agency:

Segaert, A. & Bauer, A. (2015). The extent and nature of veteran homelessness in Canada. Employment and Social Development Canada. https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/programs/communities/homelessness/publications-bulletins/veterans-report.html