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Writing Center
APA Citation rules and examples
In-Text Citation
Groups as authors
Some source materials are written by a team of authors who act as a
group. This commonly occurs in governmental publications, newspapers
and magazines. In this case, use the name of the group as the author.
For a first citation write out the complete name of the group and the
acronym in brackets.
Examples
The Center for Academic Development and Study Skills (CADS) has completed
a number of investigations into student study habits. These studies
(2000)...
A number of investigations into student study habits (The Center for
Academic Development and Study Skills [CADS], 2000) show...
If there is a second in-text citation of the same group use the acronym
as the author.
Example
These investigations further show (CADS, 2000) the need...
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