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APA Style Guide: 6th Edition

Organizational Report with No Author, Online

Examples of formatting an in-text citation for this item are outlined below:

Reference Information

Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies. (2014). Ontario child welfare report. Retrieved from http://www.oacas.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/2014_child_welfare_report.pdf

In-text Citation Guidelines

Examples                                                                                                           

1.

Organization and year of publication placed in brackets at the end of a paraphrased sentence.

Note: If you are paraphrasing from a lengthy document, also include page, paragraph or heading info. 

Initial citation in-text:

Consider this a paraphrased sentence (Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies [OACAS], 2014).    

Subsequent in-text citations:

Consider this a paraphrased sentence (OACAS, 2014).                      

2. 

Sentence beginning with author(s) last name(s) followed immediately by date in brackets; page or paragraph # in brackets at the end of the quote.

Initial citation in-text:

According to Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies [OACAS] (2014), "consider this a direct quote" (p. 2).

Subsequent in-text citations:

According to OACAS (2014), "consider this a direct quote" (p. 2).

Remember, in-text citation formatting changes depending on a number of factors.

See Number and Type of Author(s), Publication Date, and Page/Paragraph Number or Heading for more information.