Technical/Company reports

Connect through to format examples which provide a review of each component that needs to be included in a reference.

Then move to the FURTHER EXAMPLES table with many examples of book and e-book format types. 

The examples for citing published company reports and/or material provided on their websites are provided in either “Technical/Company Reports” and/or “Web-based Publication” sections of this guide. If you want to cite the information pertaining to a company that you have obtained through a personal communication, you may use the ‘Personal communication’ examples provided in this guide (you do not need to include an entry in the Reference List). 

Basic format to reference an electronic technical report

[#]   Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), “Title of report,” Company, City, State, Country, Rep. no., (optional: vol./issue), Date. Accessed: Date. [Online]. Available: site/path/file 

Referencing elements to cite:

• [#] Reference number (matching the in-text citation number)
• Author’s first initial. Author’s second initial, if provided. Author’s last name
• Title of the Report, in double quotation marks. Important words of the title are capitalised, but not minor ones, such as ‘and’, ‘of’, ‘on’, etc.
• Publisher, i.e. the abbreviated name of company or institution that published the report
• Place of publication. Refer to Place of publication for information on the correct format of locations
• Report number and volume and/or issue number
• Abbreviated Month and Year of publication. Refer to the Abbreviated month section for further information
• Accessed on: Month, Day, Year. Refer to the Abbreviated month section for further information
• [Online]
• Available: site/path/file location, which can be a DOI, a library database provider or a full URL

[2]    G. Glass, "Electrical safety program: Nonelectrical crafts at LANL, Live #12175," Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM, LA-UR--16-29637, 2016. Accessed Feb. 1, 2017. [Online]. Available: doi:10.2172/1338684

[3]    T. A. Litman, "Autonomous vehicle implementation predictions: Implications for transport planning," Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Apr. 24, 2018. Accessed: Apr. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.vtpi.org/avip.pdf

Basic format to reference a print technical report

[#]   Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), “Title of Report,” Abbrev. Name of Co., City of Co., Abbrev. State, Country (abbrev. US State or Country if the City is not 'well known'), Report number/Type (if available), Abbrev. Month. (Day if available), Year of Publication.

Referencing elements to cite:

• [#] Reference number (matching the in-text citation number)
• Author’s first initial. Author’s second initial, if provided. Author’s last name
• Title of the Report, in double quotation marks. Important words of the title are capitalised, but not minor ones, such as ‘and’, ‘of’, ‘on’, etc.
• Publisher, i.e. the abbreviated name of company or institution that published the report
• Place of publication. Refer to Place of publication for information on the correct format of locations
• Report number and volume and/or issue number
• Abbreviated Month and Year of publication. Refer to the Abbreviated month section for further information.

[1]    D. Smith, “17th Construction Squadron Relocation Infrastructure Project,” Canberra Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, Canberra, ACT, Rep. no. 5, June 2015.