APA for Business Sources

Revision as of 23:31, 6 May 2016

An author can be:

- one or more persons - an entity, such as a company, a government agency, an association or a nonprofit organization, etc.

If there is no author (a rare situation), then the citation starts with the Title, followed by the remaining elements (date, retrieval info).

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-Business resources often (though certainly not always!) do not have individual authors.  In such cases, there's a good chance that a ''corporate author'' is involved.  That is, an organization such as a company, a government agency, or a nonprofit may be the author.  (In many cases, the same organization is also the publisher and/or host of the report or data you are citing.
+An author can be:
-If there really is no clear author (a relatively rare situation), then you will need to leave the Author out of the citation and move the Title over to the initial position, followed by the date.
+- one or more persons
+- an entity, such as a company, a government agency, an association or a nonprofit organization, etc.
+If there is no author (a rare situation), then the citation starts with the Title, followed by the remaining elements (date, retrieval info).
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