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Reports & Government Publications

Reports from organizations, government bodies, and ministries. For Estonian and EU legal acts specifically, see Legal, EU & Estonian Sources.

Report by an organization

Template:Organization. (Year). Title of report (Report No. xxx, if any). Publisher, if different from the organization. URL
Example:American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000
In text:(American Psychological Association, 2020) / American Psychological Association (2020)
Note: For a source with a well-known abbreviation, introduce it at first mention — (American Psychological Association [APA], 2020) — then use (APA, 2020) afterwards.

Government or ministry publication

Template:Issuing body. (Year). Title of report. Publisher, if different. URL
Note: Estonian ministries and agencies (e.g., a ministry, the Bank of Estonia, Statistics Estonia) are cited as the “issuing body,” using the name as it appears on the publication. For the underlying numeric data itself rather than a written report, see Market Research & Data Sets.

Chapter or section within an edited report

Template:Author, A. A. (Year). Title of chapter or section. In E. E. Editor (Ed.), Title of report (pp. xx–xx). Publisher. URL
Note: Rare, but occurs with some large institutional reports that credit individual contributors per section.