General Format

(Government Author, Year, page or paragraph number [if available])

(Government Author, Year)

Name of Government Agency. (Year). Title of document: Subtitle (Report No. xxx [if available]). Publisher or Parent Agencies (if applicable). URL of specific document

Example

(National Advisory Committee on Immunization [NACI], 2023, para. 2)     For the first time you cite this source.

(NACI, 2023, para. 2)     For any subsequent citations.

(National Advisory Committee on Immunization [NACI], 2023)     For the first time you cite this source.

(NACI, 2023)     For any subsequent citations 

National Advisory Committee on Immunization. (2023). Interim guidance on the use of bivalent Omicron-containing COVID-19 vaccines for primary series (Catalogue no. HP5-158/1-2023E-PDF). Government of Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada. https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2023/aspc-phac/HP5-158-1-2023-eng.pdf

Tips

• Authors:
  • If individual person(s) are named on the title page, use them as the author.
  • If no individual person is named as an author, use the government agency, department, or branch as a group author. Give the name of the group author exactly as it appears on the title page.
  • If the group author is also the publisher, omit the publisher element.
  • If the group author has parent agencies, include the parent agencies in the source element as the publisher. (For example, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization is a sub-division of the Public Health Agency of Canada.) The official APA Style website has a longer explanation and an example: Report by a Government Agency References
• Report number. Many government reports in Canada have a catalogue number instead of a report number. If a source does not have a report number or a catalogue number, omit the report number.
• More information. See the APA Manual (10.4) for more information and examples.