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APA Referencing Guide: Corporate Author

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Books - Corporate Author

Books - Corporate Author

 

The author of a publication be an organisation. For example, NHS, the BBC, Institute of Electrical Engineers ...

It is not uncommon for a book that is written by an organisations to also be published by the same organisation.

 

Example: Book with a corporate author - published by the same organisation.

 

 

 

In-text citation

Students are important members of the scholarly community and their written work deserves the same level of care and attention to detail as that given to professional writing (American Psychological Association, 2019, p. 3).

 

Full reference for the Reference List

American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.).

Note.

  • The name of the organisation is used in place of individual author(s).
  • In this example, as the author and publisher are the same, the publisher is omitted from the full reference.

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