Before using this guide check with your faculty, school or department for their specific referencing guidelines
Notes:
Follow these examples closely for all layout, punctuation, spacing and capitalisation.
Enter author's surname, followed by no more than 2 initials.
Give all authors and separate each by a comma and a space.
Where the author is an organisation, quote the full name of the organisation, omitting the word "The" if preceding the name. Follow the name with the country of origin in parenthesis ( ) using only the two letter country code. See Appendix D of Citing Medicine.
Where an author and organisation are cited, use the author's name. Add the organisation's name at your discretion.
If there are no authors, only editors, list all editors, followed by a comma and the word editor(s).
Only the first word of the article title and words that normally begin with a capital letter are capitalised.
The place of publication is the city in which the report was published. For US and Canadian cities follow with the two letter state code in Appendix E, for all other cities use the two letter country code in Appendix D.
Include page numbers in an abbreviated format. e.g.: p. 12-25. Where appropriate abbreviate e.g.: p. 241-8.
For electronic reports include the DOI if it is given and place it after the URL.
Abbreviate months to their first 3 letters.
Notate report numbers in the appropriate format e.g.: Report No. or ABS Cat. No.
| Format |
Author AA, Author BB. Title of report. Place of publication: Publisher; Date of publication. Total number of pages. Report No.: or Organisation Name. Title of report. Place of publication: Publisher; Date of publication. Total number of pages. Report No.: |
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Example |
Rowe IL, Carson NE. Medical manpower in Victoria. East Bentleigh (AU): Monash University, Department of Community Practice; 1981. 35 p. Report No.: 4. or Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australia’s environment: issues and facts. Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics; 1992. 354 p. ABS Cat. No.: 4140.0. |
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Example |
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. 2004 National drug strategy household survey: detailed findings. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; 2005. 139 p. (Drug statistics series; no.: 16). |
Additional information is required in electronic reports. The media type is noted in square brackets e.g.: [Internet].
The cited date must be included.
The URL from which it is retrieved is included at the end, as is the DOI if one is available.
| Format |
Author AA, Author BB. Title of report [Internet]. Place of publication: Publisher; Date of publication [cited YYYY Mon DD]. Total number of pages. Report No.: Available from: URL doi: |
| Example |
Li Z, Zeki R, Hilder L, Sullivan EA. Australia's mothers and babies 2010 [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; 2012 [cited 2019 Dec 18]. 132 p. Cat. No.: PER 57. Available from: http://aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=60129542376 |
| Example |
Human Rights Watch. “Punishing the patient”: ensuring access to pain treatment in Guatemala [Internet]. New York: Human Rights Watch; 2017 May [cited 2019 Aug 21]. 62 p. Available from: https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/guatemala0517_web.pdf |
| Example |
Inspector-General for Emergency Management (AU). Review of response to the thunderstorm asthma event of 21–22 November 2016 – Final Report [Internet]. Melbourne: Department of Justice; May 2017 [cited 2019 Aug 21]. 105 p. Available from: https://www.igem.vic.gov.au/reports-and-publications/igem-reports/review-of-response-to-the-thunderstorm-asthma-event-of-21-0 |
| Example |
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. National opioid pharmacotherapy statistics (NOPSAD) 2017 [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2018 [cited 2019 Jun 16]. 20 p. Report no.: 11. Available from: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/alcohol-other-drug-treatment-services/nopsad-2017/report-editions |