Author-last name, first initials. (Date). Title (Report number).
Location: Publisher.
If it is an agency, list the parent agency and the authoring agency. If it is an online item, instead of identifying location and publisher, insert "Retrieved from [URL]" Remember, in APA, do not insert a period after a URL.
Author - print Sec 7.03:
James, D. J. & Glaze, L. E. (2006). Mental health
problems of prison and jail inmates (NJC 213
6000). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of
Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of
Justice Statistics.
Agency - print Sec 7.03:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
National Institutes of Health, National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute. (2003). Managing
asthma: A guide for schools (NIH Publication
No. 02-2650). Washington, D.C.: GPO.
Agency - online
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
National Institutes of Health, National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute. (2003). Managing
asthma: A guide for schools (NIH Publication
No. 02-2650). Retrieved from http://www.nhlbi
.nih.gov/health/prof/lung/asthma/asth_sch.pdf
U.S. Federal Statute/ U.S. Code Sec. 7.04:
Mental Health Systems Act, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9401
(1988).
APA Style prefers citations like this to be included in-text and not cited in the bibliography.
(Mental Health Systems Act of 1988).
Public Law
Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology
Education Amendments of 1998, Pub. L. No. 105-
332. 112 Stat. 3076 (1998).
Volume 112 of the U.S. Statutes at Large, beginning on page 3076.
Legal Cases Sec. 7.03:
Brown v. Board of Educ., 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
Volume 347 of the United States Reports, starting on page 483.
APA Style allows for in-text citations (Brown v. Board of Educ., 1954).
House or Senate Bill:
Conservation and Reinvestment Act of 1998,
S. 25, 106th Cong. (1999).
This is the same format for a Congressional resolution.
If passed into law, cite them as public laws.
Congressional Hearing:
Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce:
Hearing before the Special Committee to Investigate
Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, 82nd Cong.
1175 (1950).
"1175" refers to the page where you begin referencing content.
Presidential Documents:
Bush, G. W. Address before a joint session of
the Congress on the state of the union,
January 20, 2004. Public Papers of the
Presidents of the United States: George
W. Bush (pp. 94-101). Retrieved from
GPO Access database. http://www.gpo
access.gov/index.html
Treaties - Print:
APA Style does not describe how to properly cite treaties.
You need to include the source.
Fisheries off the United States Coast Agreement,
United States-Cuba, April 27, 1977. (TIAS
8689). United States Treaties and Other
International Agreements, Vol. 28 (pp. 6770-
6874).
TIAS = Treaties and other International Acts Series, government publication post-1950.
Treaties - Online:
APA Style does not describe how to properly cite treaties.
You need to include the source.
WIPO Copyright Treaty, United States-WIPO,
July 28, 1997. (Treaty Doc. 105-17).
Retrieved from GPO database. http://www.
gpo.gov/
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