9. Non-government reports

In this chapter:
Non-government reports

Treat reports as books or web documents, and include a report number where available.

1. NON-GOVERNMENT REPORTS
  • Follow guidelines for Corporate (Group) Author, and for Books, with the inclusion of a Report or Reference Number if available.
  • For online reports, identify the publisher in the retrieval statement unless the publisher is also identified as the author.

a) Business

b) Society, group or committee

c) Technical or research report

In-text

(Author Surname/Organisation, Year)

Examples:

a) Revenue was … (BHP Billiton, 2018).

b) Emergency services … (Beyond Blue Ltd., 2018).

c) Aslin and Russell (2008) state that …

Reference

Author Surname/Organisation, Initial. (Year). Title (Report no.). DOI/Retrieved from URL

Or

Author Surname/Organisation, Initial. (Year). Title (Report no.). Place of Publication: Publisher

Examples:

a) BHP Billiton. (2018). BHP annual report 2018. Retrieved from https://www.bhp.com/-/media/documents/investors/annual-reports/2018/bhpannualreport2018.pdf

b) Beyond Blue Ltd. (2018). Answering the call national survey: Beyond Blue’s national mental health and wellbeing study of police and emergency services; Final report. Retrieved from http://resources.beyondblue.org.au/prism/file?token=BL/1898

c) Aslin, H., & Russell, J. (2008). Social impacts of drought: Review of literature. Retrieved from Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics and Sciences website: https://www.agriculture.gov.au/sites/default/files/abares/documents/socimpctdroughtlitrev2008-1.0.0.pdf

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