Report title: The Report title is in italics and is in title case, i.e. capitalise the first letter of each major word.
Refer to Section 4.3.5.17 of the ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication for more on citing technical reports and bulletins.
See Tables 4.3.28, 4.3.29, and 4.3.30 in the ACS Guide for more examples of government or organisational reports.
For more information on reference list format and style, see General information - basics of referencing.
1. Author(s) or Name of Organisation/Department. Title of Report; Publication Number (if provided); Publishing Agency: Place of Publication, Year. DOI or URL
2. Author(s) or Name of Organisation/Department. Title of Report; Publication Number (if provided); Publishing Agency: Place of Publication, Year.
1. Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. Knowing What’s Out There: Regulating the Environmental Fate of Chemicals; Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Wellington, New Zealand, March 2022. https://pce.parliament.nz/media/g0pk2axl/regulating-the-environmental-fate-of-chemicals.pdf
2. Turley, M. Food and Nutrition Monitoring Report 2006; Public Health Intelligence Monitoring Report 9; Ministry of Health: Wellington, New Zealand, 2006.
1. Author(s). Title of report or bulletin; Report or Bulletin Number; Publisher; Place of publication (if needed): Year. DOI or URL
2. Author(s). Title of report or bulletin; Report or Bulletin Number; Publisher; Place of publication (if needed): Year.
1. Allen, H. Tamaki Makaurau / Auckland Marine Sediment Contaminant Monitoring: State Report for 2023: Central Waitemata Harbour; Technical Report 2024/8; Auckland Council, Auckland, New Zealand, October 2024. https://www.knowledgeauckland.org.nz/media/vcuhmsir/tr2024-08-t%C4%81maki-makaurau-auckland-marine-sediment-contaminant-monitoring-2023.pdf
2. Freeman, T.; Cudmore, R. Review of Odour Management in New Zealand; Air Quality Technical Report No. 24; Ministry for the Environment: Wellington, New Zealand, 2002.
Put a superscript number in your text to show when you are using another person's ideas or words. This number directs the reader to the reference list, containing information about the work you are citing.
... has been recently identified.1
If you are making a direct quotation, use quotation marks.
Dalas and Koutsoukos observed that "the presence of the magnetic field did not result in preferential growth of a certain crystal face."2
If the same source is referred to more than once within your text, repeat the number. If you are expressing ideas that have originated from more than one source, separate the numbers with commas, or use a hyphen if referring to several endnotes. A number following the full stop/period applies to the whole sentence.
... in alkyl sulphates such as sodium lauryl sulphate3,5-7 and diethyl sulphate6. Chew and Maibach3 also noted that the compounds showing promise were those in the C12 - C14 range.