Sometimes information sources have more than one author. This is also the case with corporate authors.
The same rules apply for multiple authors and multiple corporate authors. All corporate authors must be listed in the reference list and the abbreviation et al. can be used in text for more than two authors.
Reference List
Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment for one corporate author:
Nursing and Midwifery Council. (2020) Financial Strategy 2020-2021. London: MNC.
In-text citation
Example 1 - where the author's name occurs naturally in the sentence
Nursing and Midwifery Council (2020) mentions the stats on ...
Reference List
Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment for two corporate authors:
Age UK and Alzheimer's Society. (2017) Living with dementia. London: Alzheimer's Society.
In-text citation
Example 1 - where the author's name occurs naturally in the sentence
Age UK and Alzheimer's Society (2017) working on a ...
Reference List
Examples of the full reference at the end of your assignment with more than two corporate authors:
Chief Inspector of Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons, The Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority and Education and Training Inspectorate. (2018) Report on an unannounced inspection of Maghaberry Prison 9-19 April 2018. Belfast: Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland.
In-text citation
Example 1 - where the author's name occurs naturally in the sentence
Chief Inspector of Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland et al. (2018) believe the prison to be safer and more stable.
Example 2 - where the author's name does not occur naturally in the sentence
The prison is now believed to be safer and more stable (Chief Inspector of Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland et al. 2018).
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