Corporate author
Format for in-text citation
In-text citation example
(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 56)
OR
In 1988, a federal report observed that ...(United States, Dept. of Labor 147)
Format for reference list
Elements, punctuation & capitalisation
Corporate Author (only if different from publisher- see Style notes). Title of Book. Publisher, Year.
Reference List example
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Babies and Bosses: Reconciling Work and Family Life. OECD Publishing, 2002.
Style notes for this reference style
See Handbook
- A work may be created by a corporate author- an institution, an association, a government agency, or another kind of institution.
- When an organisation is both author and publisher, begin the entry with the work’s title, skipping the author element, and list the organisation only as the publisher (5.19). For an exception when citing government publications, see 5.22.
- Initial articles (a, an, the) should be omitted from the works-cited list (5.18).
- When a corporate author is named in a parenthetical citation (in-text citation), abbreviate terms that are commonly abbreviated, such as Department – Dept. (2.87)
- If a government agency has many components to its name, keep only the name of the government and the primary agency (5.63; fig. 5.70)
- When a work is published by a division of a non-government agency, list the entities from largest to smallest and separate them with commas (5.62).
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