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APA 7th edition - Reference guide: No listed author

Reference guide for APA 7th edition, a guide intended for students at the Univesity of Fort Hare to learn how format references according to the APA 7th edition style.

No listed author

No listed author 

Some works may not have a personal author listed, and a group author (e.g. an organization, company or authority) may instead function as the author. If the work does not have any authors listed (neither personal nor group author), the title of the work takes the place of the author in the reference. If the title of the work is italicizes in the reference list, italicize the title in the in-text reference. If the title in not italicizes, use quotation marks around the title in the in-text citation.


Examples:

In-text references  

(Naturvårdsverket, 2007)          

("Karyotype," 2015)

Naturvårdsverket (2007) states that...

According to the entry "Karyotype" (2015)...

Reference list

Karyotype. (2015). In M. Allaby (Ed.), A dictionary of ecology (5th ed.). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780191793158.001.0001

Naturvårdsverket. (2007). Tillsyn med framsyn: Naturvårdsverkets tillsynsvägledning 2007 – 2009 (Report No. 5675). http://www.naturvardsverket.se/Documents/publikationer/620-5675-1.pdf