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APA 7th Edition Citation Examples

ABI/INFORM Collection

First Research. (2019, February 25). Household appliance manufacturing [Industry profile]. Dun & Bradstreet.

Annual report

General Electric. (2021). 2020 annual report. https://www.ge.com/sites/default/files/GE_AR20_AnnualReport.pdf

Business Source Ultimate

MarketLine. (2023, April 11). Company profile: Starbucks Corporation. Business Source Ultimate. https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/business-source-ultimate

The MarketLine company profiles in Business Source Ultimate appear to be available only through the database, so the database name and home page URL should be included in the reference list entry, as discussed in Section 9.34 of the APA Publication Manual.

Gale Business: Insights

Company history

AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (2021). In S. Long, D. Jacques, & P. Kepos (Eds.), International directory of company histories (Vol. 229). St. James Press.

Company profile

Gale. (n.d.). Target Corporation: Company profile. Gale Business: Insights. https://www.gale.com/c/business-insights

Country profile

Gale. (n.d.). Switzerland: Country/territory profile. Gale Business: Insights. https://www.gale.com/c/business-insights

Industry essay

Plant-based meatless meats. (2021). In Encyclopedia of emerging industries. Gale.

Market share report

Top frozen novelty brands, 2019. (2021). In V. L. Burton, III & R. S. Lazich (Eds.), Market share reporter (31st ed.). Gale.

Plunkett report

Plunkett Research. (2021, March 4). Passenger car rental industry (U.S.): Analytics, extensive financial benchmarks, metrics and revenue forecasts to 2027, NAIC 532111. Plunkett Analytics. https://www.gale.com/c/business-insights

SWOT report

GlobalData. (2020, November). The Gap, Inc.: Financial and strategic analysis review. Gale Business: Insights. https://www.gale.com/c/business-insights

Form 10-K

Microsoft Corporation. (2021). Form 10-K. https://microsoft.gcs-web.com/node/29516/html

Hoovers

Analyst report

J.P. Morgan. (2021, July 30). 3M: Masks mask emerging tailwinds in '22 [Analyst report]. Dun & Bradstreet. http://logon.onesource.com/

Company profile

Dun & Bradstreet. (n.d.). Kohl's Corporation [Company profile]. Retrieved May 27, 2020, from http://logon.onesource.com/

See undated sources for more information on the use of "n.d.". Also, since the content of this source is likely to change over time and older versions of the source aren't archived, you should include a retrieval date. See Retrieval dates for more information on the use of retrieval dates.

Industry profile

Dun & Bradstreet. (n.d.). Space research and technology [Industry profile]. Retrieved June 29, 2020, from http://logon.onesource.com/

See the note above for Company profile with regard to the use of "n.d." and a retrieval date.

Market research report

Freedonia Group. (2019, December). Medical equipment & supplies: United States [Market research report]. Dun & Bradstreet. http://logon.onesource.com

SWOT analysis 

GlobalData. (2021, June 11). Target Corporation SWOT analysis. Dun & Bradstreet. http://logon.onesource.com/

IBISWorld

Cook, D. (2021, May). Corporate wellness services (OD4621) [U.S. specialized industry report]. IBISWorld. https://www.ibisworld.com/

If the report has an identifying number, list it in parentheses after the title and provide a more specific description of the report between brackets; don’t use just [Industry report] since there may be more than one report with the same title and identifying number.

Nexis Uni

Analyst report

Fitch Solutions Limited. (2020). Germany country risk report - Q3 2020. Nexis Uni. https://www.lexisnexis.com/

Company dossier

LexisNexis. (n.d.). Ford Motor Company [Company profile]. Retrieved May 28, 2020, from https://www.lexisnexis.com/

See undated sources for more information on the use of "n.d.". Also, since the content of this source is likely to change over time and older versions of the source aren't archived, you should include a retrieval date. See Retrieval dates for more information on the use of retrieval dates.

Statista

Chart

National Coffee Association. (2021, January). Past-day coffee consumption in the United States in 2021, by type of coffee [Chart]. Statista. https://www.statista.com/

The group listed in the Source section should be considered to be the chart's author.

Company information

Marriott International, Inc. [Company overview]. (n.d.). Statista. Retrieved July 12, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/

See undated sources for more information on the use of "n.d.". Also, since the content of this source is likely to change over time and older versions of the source aren't archived, you should include a retrieval date. See Retrieval dates for more information on the use of retrieval dates.

Dossier

Statista. (2020). Smart TVs in Germany [Dossier]. https://www.statista.com/

Infographic

Buchholz, K. (2022, May 19). The global inflation outlook: Projected annual inflation by country in 2022. [Infographic]. Statista. https://www.statista.com

Credit

Many of the examples on this page are based on:

Schemm, N., Dellenbach, M., Grisham, Z., Hageman, M., Tingle, N., Trowbridge, M., & Wheatley, A. (2020). APA 7th ed. citation for business sources. https://bit.ly/APA7business

The work is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA-4.0 license.