APA for Business Sources

Capitalization and italics of titles in references will vary depending on what kind of resource is involved.

In the notes below:

• Sentence case capitalization means that you capitalize only the first word of the title and the subtitle and all proper nouns.
• Title case capitalization means that you capitalize all major words.

Books and reports

- Italicize titles and subtitles; sentence case capitalization

- Sample: Credit unions in Canada: IBISWorld industry report 52213CA

Periodical Titles

- Italicize titles and subtitles; title case capitalization

- Samples:

International Business Review
BC Business

Article titles

- Do not italicize; sentence case capitalization

- Sample: An abnormally abnormally intangible: Stock returns on customer satisfaction

Missing title

Sometimes a source has no clear title -- this can happen with sources such as tables or maps generated from searches within some databases.

In such cases, you should write a very brief description of the resource within square brackets containing information that would help your reader find or recreate the same source (table, map, etc.) For example, your square brackets might include the variables you searched for to create a table.

Example: [Lay's Lightly Salted for Canada M&F age 12+ by province].

Series

Many business sources such as country, industry, and company reports are part of ongoing series. There are multiple ways to refer to such series. A simple approach is to create consistent references for such series is to create a single title in the format: Series title: Report title.

Examples:
Country reports: Mexico
Company profile: BlackBerry Limited