APA Citation Guide (APA 7th Edition): Government & Professional Organization Documents

Name of Professional Organization or Government Department/Agency/Committee. (Year of Publication). Title of document: Subtitle if given (Report or publication number, if given). Publisher Name if different from author. DocumentURL

Examples

College of Nurses of Ontario. (2025). Practice standard: Code of conduct (Pub. No. 49040). https://www.cno.org/globalassets/docs/prac/49040_code-of-conduct.pdf

Ministry of Indigenous Affairs. (2019). Walking together: Ontario's long-term strategy to end violence against Indigenous women. Queen's Printer for Ontario. https://files.ontario.ca/mi-2006_evaiw_report_for_tagging_final-s.pdf

Note: The specific agency responsible for the report appears as the author. The names of parent agencies not present in the group author name appear in the source element as the publisher. This creates concise in-text citations and complete reference list entries.

(Name of Professional Organization or Government Department/Agency/Committee, Year, p. Page Number)

Examples

(College of Nurses of Ontario, 2025, p. 4)

(Ministry of Indigenous Affairs, 2019, Complex Roots section, para. 10)

Note: When there are no visible page numbers, you may cite the section heading and the number of the paragraph in that section to identify where your quote came from.

(Name of Professional Organization or Government Department/Agency/Committee, Year)

Examples

(College of Nurses of Ontario, 2023)

(Ministry of Indigenous Affairs, 2019)