The required elements for the reference are:
Corporate author. (Year) Title. Place of publication: Publisher.
Reference List
Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment:
Nursing and Midwifery Council. (2018) The code: professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates. Updated ed. London: NMC.
In-text citation
Example 1 - where the corporate author's name occurs naturally in the sentence
As stipulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2018)...
Example 2 - where the corporate author's name does not occur naturally in the sentence
According to the Code (Nursing and Midwifery Council 2018)...
Points to note:
- With a corporate author, capital letters are used for all words except for those which are articles (e.g. a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or, for, nor) and prepositions (e.g. on, at, to, by).
- The place of publication should distinguish between organisations with an identical name e.g. London: Department of Health; Belfast: Department of Health.
- If the work is by a recognised organisation and has no personal author then it is usually cited under the body that commissioned the work. This applies to publications by associations, companies, and government departments etc. such as Department of Health (DH), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Royal College of Nursing (RCN).
- For in-text citations - It is acceptable to use standard abbreviations for these bodies, e.g. NMC, in your text, providing that the full name is given at the first citing with the abbreviation in brackets. For example:
All nurses must observe the standards as stipulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2018). Furthermore, the NMC (2019) return to practice standards focus on...
| Other sources which may be useful |
