Citing and referencing: Government and Organisation Publications

Print: Title of Work. Publisher, Date of Publication.

Online: Title of Work. Publisher, Date of Publication. Title of Webpage, doi.

Examples

Code of Practice for Bushfire Management on Public Land. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment, 2012.

Gender Balance on Australian Government Boards Report 2019-20. Commonwealth of Australia, 6 Oct. 2020. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, www.pmc.gov.au/publications/gender-balance-australian-government-boards-report-2019-20.

List the publisher’s name (i.e., the government agency) as you see it in the source.

Do not include The before the name of any government department.

If the document does not have a DOI, use the URL instead.

For Australian Government reports, the publisher is usually the same as the author, so to avoid repetition, it is only listed under publisher.

Print: Name of Organisation. Title of Work. Publisher, Date of Publication.

Online: Name of Organisation. Title of Work. Publisher, Date of Publication. Title of Webpage, doi.

Examples

British Library, Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books. Annual Report. British Library Board, 1986.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework: 2017 Report. Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council, 2017, www.indigenoushpf.gov.au/.

If the publisher is the same as the organisation name, avoid repetition and omit name of organisation. See first example.

Do not include The before the name of any organisation in the works-cited list.

If the document does not have a DOI, use the URL instead.

Title of Work. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Release Date, URL.

Examples

Water Use on Australian Farms. Australian Bureau of Statistics, 7 July 2017, www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/4618.0?OpenDocument.

"Title of Work." Title of webpage, Release Date, URL. Media release. 

Examples

"Preserving And Sharing Victoria’s Collections." State Government of Victoria, 15 Dec. 2020, www.premier.vic.gov.au/preserving-and-sharing-victorias-collections. Media release.

Occasionally the publisher of a media release is different from the title of the webpage. If this is the case, also include the publisher following the release date, in italics.