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Harvard Referencing Guide (not including LHS): Corporate body (Company or organisation)

 

Harvard Style of Citing References

Where a reference has no author listed but does have an obvious corporate body responsible, then the corporate body can be considered to be the author.  This can be true for many documents such as company reports, policy documents etc.

In the reference list, the corporate name may be entered twice, as both the author and the publisher.


 

In-text:
 

The term 'free-from' has become mainstream, especially among young consumers (Mintel, 2021).

or

Across the world, education for young people has been endangered by the COVID-19 pandemic (UNESCO et al., 2020).


In your list of references the entry should match the way the reference was identified in the text:
 

Name of Corporate Body (Year of publication) Title of publication. Place of publication: Publisher, Report Number.
(where relevant).

The corporate body may be a company, charity, government department etc.

e.g.

UNESCO, United Nations Children's Fund, World Bank and World Food Programme (2020) Framework for reopening schools. Paris: UNESCO.

or

Mintel (2021) Free-from foods – UK - February 2021. London: Mintel. Available from: https://reports.mintel.com/ [Accessed 5 August 2021].