Citation: Business Sources

Business Sources

Because the APA style manual does not provide examples for every single type of resource, these examples have been adapted for common business resources.

• If no author, use a corporate author (ex. company, association, or group responsible for the content).
• If no publication date, use the abbreviation n.d. for "no date."

Company Profile in Business Insights: Global

Gale Cengage Learning is the corporate author of the company profiles in Business Insights: Global. Company profiles obtained from other sources will have different authors.

SWOT Analysis in Business Insights: Global

GlobalData is the corporate author of SWOT analyses accessed through Business Insights: Global.

Value Line Investment Survey

Include the publication date, starting with the year and then the month and day.

BusinessDecision

Business Decision allows the user to create custom data sets. If you are citing data created by you, list yourself as the author. If you are citing data created by someone else, list that person as the author.

No Author

If you do not know the author, begin with the title of the data set.

Chart, Graph, Table, etc.

In LexisNexis Academic, the corporate author of a table and its publication date can usually be found directly beneath the table.

Data Set