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APA 7: Reports and Gray Literature

Information Needed

  • Author(s)
  • Date (year, month, day)
  • Title of work (italicized, sentence case)
  • Report number*
  • Item type in brackets*
  • Direct URL to material

* Depending on material type, see examples.

General Format of Reports and Gray Literature

General Report Format

Agency Name. (Date). Title in italics and sentence case: Subtitle also capitalized (Publication No. XXX). Parent Agency.

         https://www.directURL.gov

General Gray Literature Format

Author or Agency Name. (Date). Title in italics and sentence case: Subtitle also capitalized [Item type]. https://www.directURL.gov

Report and Gray Literature Examples

Report by a Government Agency

National Cancer Institute. (2019). Taking time: Support for people with cancer (NIH Publication No. 18-2059). U.S. Department of Health

         and Human Services, National Institutes of Health. https://www.cancer.gov/publications/patient-education/takingtime.pdf

Report with Individual Authors

Baral, P., Larsen, M., & Archer, M. (2019). Does money grow on trees? Restoration financing in Southeast Asia. Atlantic Council.

         https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/does-money-grow-on-trees-restoring-financing-in-southeast-asia/

Stuster, J., Adolf, J., Byrne, V., & Greene, M. (2018). Human exploration of Mars: Preliminary lists of crew tasks (Report No. NASA/CR-

         2018-220043). National Aeronautics and Space Administration. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190001401.pdf

Conference Proceeding

Pérez-Rosas, V., Kleinberg, B., Lefevre, A., & Mihalcea, R. (2018). Automatic detection of fake news [Conference proceeding]. 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary. https://aclanthology.org/C18-1287.pdf

Brochure

Cedars-Sinai. (2015). Human papillomavirus (HPV) and oropharyngeal cancer [Brochure]. https://www.cedars-sinai.org/content

         /dam/cedars-sinai/cancer/sub-clinical-areas/head-neck/documents/hpv-throat-cancer-brochure.pdf

Ethics Code

American Counseling Association. (2014). 2014 ACA code of ethics. https://www.counseling.org/docs/default-source/default-

         document-library/2014-code-of-ethics-finaladdress.pdf

Fact Sheet

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. (n.d.). Asbestos in your environment: What you can do to limit exposure [Fact sheet].

         U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/docs/limitingenvironmentalexposures_factsheet-508.pdf

Press Release

U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (2019, November 15). FDA approves first contact lens indicated to slow the progression of

         nearsightedness in children [Press release]. https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-

         contact-lens-indicated-slow-progression-nearsightedness-children

White Paper With a Group Author

Department for Business Innovation & Skills. (2016). Success as a knowledge economy: Teaching excellent, social mobility and student

         choice [White paper]. Crown. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/523396/bis-16-265-

         success-as-a-knowledge-economy.pdf

White Paper With Individual Authors

Furst, M., & DeMillo, R. A. (2006). Creating symphonic-thinking computer science graduates for an increasingly competitive global

         environment [White paper]. Georgia Tech College of Computing. https://cis.temple.edu/~giorgio/threads_whitepaper.pdf

Adapted from American Psychological Association publication manual (7th ed.).