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When in text citing or referencing a report with no author, then you should use the name of the corporate author/organisation, as it is listed at the beginning of the document.

 

Details on how to reference an online document by a corporate author can be found on the Cite Them Right Harvard (company annual reports or publications of international organisations) referencing guide.

 

In text citation: The general guidelines are that the full name of the organisation/association/company/government department etc. should be used in 1st citation with the abbreviation in brackets. After that on the following citations, the abbreviated name of the organisation/association etc can be used:

 

For example:
1st citation: Following major pioneer research in 2006 undertaken by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) it has been shown that...
2nd citation: More recently the RCN (2007)…

 

Reference List: Note that the full name is the preferred format in the reference list. These should provide the full name... Royal College of Nursing, 2006. Children in the Community. London: RCN.

 

Some reports are written by specially convened groups or committees and can be cited by the name of the committee: Committee on Nursing (1972) Note there are some exceptions to this such as: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra or BBC News where the abbreviations or initials form part of the official name.

 

Referencing e-versions requires you to include the web address and date accessed within the reference.  The required elements for an e-version are: Authorship/Organisation, Year. Full title of report. [type of medium] Place: Publisher: Available at: include web address/URL [Accessed on date].

 

 

Examples from Cite Them Right Harvard referencing:
For company annual reports:
Sky Group Ltd (2021) Year at Sky 2020–2021. Available at: https://www.skygroup.sky/year-at-sky (Accessed: 8 June 2021).

For publications of international organisations:
United Nations (2021) Looking into the future: four scenarios for environmental action. ESCAP/CED/2020/INF/2. Available at: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3905091?ln=en (Accessed: 9 June 2021).
 

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  1. How do I reference a journal through an online library? It ends up as a pdf but do I reference as a pdf or as an ejournal?
    by Maxine L on Nov 10, 2018
  2. Reference an e-journal article as print if it is also available in a print version of the journal. This is usually the case where you access an article in pdf format and it uses sequential journal page numbers.

    Perry, C., 2001. What health care assistants know about clean hands.
    Nursing Times, 97(22), pp.63-64.
    by Judith Wells on Dec 12, 2018

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