APA (7th ed.) Citation Style Guide: Business Sources

APA does not always provide formatting guidance that "fits" business sources. The formatting guidelines on this page follow the general principles of APA style and the advice from BC ELN’s APA for business sources guide.  The resources listed here are the most commonly used business sources at Douglas College - for more extensive guidance see the BC ELN guide.
 

Guidelines in common for the resources listed below:

• When citing a report or document from a database, provide the URL of the publisher's home page (e.g., https://www.marketline.com). Do not provide the direct URL to the report, or the name of the database you retrieved it from, e.g., omit Business Source Ultimate
   
  • Note, do provide a direct URL when citing reports/documents/articles from public websites, such as company websites.  To see what this looks like, read the Corporate Websites example below.
     
• Use only the year in the in-text citation, even if the reference list entry contains a more specific date, such as the month. To see what this looks like, read the MarketLine Reports example.
  
• Include [descriptive information] after the title if needed for clarity.  E.g., a generic title such as Market size needs more information to make clear what sort of content it covers. To see what this looks like, read the Euromonitor example.
   
• Include the [source type] you used if needed for clarity – usually for non-narrative formats such as datasets, graphs, charts etc.  To see what this looks like, read the Euromonitor example.