Reports (Chicago style & reference)

General rules – Reports

• Corporate reports, pamphlets, brochures, and other freestanding publications are treated as books.

 

• Some reports are authored by organisational departments, units or agencies, in these cases, include them as corporate authors as the first element in the reference

 

• Report titles appear in italics.

→ Research reports

In-Text citation

(Author’s Last Name Year of publication)

Ex:

(United Nations 2015)

Reference list

Author. Year of publication. Report Title: Subtitle. Report number. Place of publication. Publisher. DOI or URL

Ex:

United Nations. 2015. The Millennium Development Goals Report 2015. New York: UN.
http://http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2015_MDG_Report/pdf/MDG%202015%20rev%20(July%201).pdf

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→ Government reports

In-Text citation

(Author’s Last name or Department Year of publication)

Ex:

(NATO 2021)

Reference list

Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name or Department. Year of publication. Report Title: Subtitle. Report number. Place of publication: Publisher. DOI or URL

Ex:

NATO. 2021. “Secretary General Annual Report 2020.” Brussels: NATO.
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_182236.htm