How do you cite government sources in APA?

Government document citations include:
  1. Author or authors. The Author may be a government or corporate entity.
  2. Year.
  3. Title of report. Provide the report number in brackets if given.
  4. Publisher. Omit the publisher information if the author and the publisher are the same.
  5. DOI or URL is hyperlinked.
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How do you in-text cite a government source?

Government Document In Print
  1. Example: National Health Council. (2007). ...
  2. In-Text Paraphrase: (Name of Government Department, Agency or Committee, Year) Example: (National Health Council, 2007)
  3. In-Text Quote: (Name of Government Department, Agency or Committee, Year, p. Page Number)
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How do you cite a government website in APA with no author or date?

Website with no author and no date

If there is no author, the article title comes first. If there is no date, use the abbreviation n.d. It is no longer necessary to include the date of retrieval.
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How do you reference a government website?

Government Name, Name of Government Agency Year, Title (Report No. xxx [if available]), Publisher, Place of Publication, viewed Day Month Year, <URL>.
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How do you cite a government website with no author in APA 7th edition?

How do you cite a website in APA 7th edition no author? When you have a website in APA 7 with no author, you use the title, date, publisher, and URL. There is no period after the URL in the citation. Additionally, a website title is in italics.
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Citing Government Documents and Legislation in APA



How do I cite the US Department of Health and Human Services in APA?

The suggested citation information on the Health People site (but not APA format) is: Healthy People 2020 [Internet]. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion [cited [Date URL was accessed]].
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How do you cite the UK government website in APA?

Name of government department (Year) Title. Available at: URL (Accessed: date). Department of Heath and Social Care (2013) The health and care system explained. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/ publications/the-health-and-care-system-explained (Accessed: 7th June 2018).
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How do you cite in APA format?

When using APA format, follow the author-date method of in-text citation. This means that the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, like, for example, (Jones, 1998). One complete reference for each source should appear in the reference list at the end of the paper.
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How do you in text cite a website in APA without author?

Cite web pages in text as you would any other source, using the author and date if known. Keep in mind that the author may be an organization rather than a person. For sources with no author, use the title in place of an author. For sources with no date use n.d. (for no date) in place of the year: (Smith, n.d.).
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How do I cite a government PDF in APA?

Government Document In Print

Name of Government Department, Agency or Committee. (Year of Publication). Title of document: Subtitle if given (edition if given and is not first edition). Publisher Name.
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How do you cite a government website with no author MLA?

Title of the website. Publisher, Year of publication, URL. Accessed Date of access.
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How do you cite a state bill in APA 7th edition?

Citing a State Bill

Include the number of the bill (use A.B. for an Assembly bill or S.B. for a Senate bill), number of the legislative body, number or designation of the legislative session (using appropriate abbreviation if applicable), state abbreviation and year of publication.
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How do you cite sources?

Every time you draw on ideas, summarize information, mention arguments, or give examples that you found in a source, you need to cite it. To refer to a source, you may quote or paraphrase the original text: To quote a source, copy a short piece of text word for word and put it inside quotation marks.
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How do I reference government legislation UK?

As explained in Cite them right UK statutes (Acts of Parliament), you will need to reference a statute in the following way: Title of Act year, chapter number. Available at: URL (Accessed: date). In-text citation: The legislation (Food Standards Act 1999) states that... Reference list: Food Standards Act 1999, c.
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How do I cite the Public Health England 7th APA?

Government publication

(Date of publication). Title of report. Publisher [If different from the group author]. Public Health England.
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How do you cite the NIH government?

Insert the name of the NIH institute or center, a comma and the publication year, such as: (National Institute of Mental Health, 2011). If you mention the institute or center in text, omit it from the parentheses.
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How do you cite the Bureau of Justice Statistics in APA 7?

Citing a page on the Bureau of Justice Statistics or the Department of Justice website follows the same basic format for APA website citations: Author Lastname, First Initial(s). (Year, Month Day). Title of webpage.
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How do you cite APA 7th edition with no author?

Book with No Author

If books have no author or editor, they should be alphabetized by the first significant word of the title in your reference list. For in-text citation, use a shortened version of the title, or the whole title if it is short, in place of the author's last name.
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How do you cite the United States Code?

There are generally four elements in a citation to a statute in the United States Code:
  1. The title number.
  2. The abbreviation of the code used (here, U.S.C.)
  3. The section symbol (§) followed by a space and the section number containing the statute.
  4. The year of the code.
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How do you in text cite a bill in APA?

Title, H.R. or S. bill number, xxx Cong. (Year). URL.
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How do you cite a Senate report?

For each citation, include:
  1. "U.S.", congressional Chamber (House or Senate), and the issuing committee. ...
  2. The title of the publication, shortened with an ellipsis (...) if the title is too long. ...
  3. Report number, including Congress number and date of the report the report number (preceded by H.
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How do you cite government MLA?

Cite the government agency that issued it as author listing the name of the government followed by the name of the agency (you may abbreviate this if it is identifiable by context), followed by the title of the publication. Then list publication information as usual.
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How do you cite a government website in APA 7?

Government document citations include:
  1. Author or authors. The Author may be a government or corporate entity.
  2. Year.
  3. Title of report. Provide the report number in brackets if given.
  4. Publisher. Omit the publisher information if the author and the publisher are the same.
  5. DOI or URL is hyperlinked.
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How do you cite a source within a source in APA 7?

Include both the original author, publication year, and the original (primary) author and year of the work where quote/idea was found in the in-text reference. Add "as cited in" before the author in the in-text reference. For example, (Smith, 2015, as cited in Jonson, 2019).
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