| GMC (General Medical Council) publication |
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:
General Medical Council. (2018) Confidentiality: good practice in handling patient information. Updated ed. Manchester: GMC.
In-text citation
Example 1 - where the author's name occurs naturally in the sentence
The General Medical Council (2018) ethical guidance for doctors states...
Example 2 - where the author's name does not occur naturally in the sentence
According to the General Medical Council (GMC) (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), General Medical Council (GMC) or Royal College of Nursing (RCN).
- For in-text citations - It is acceptable to use standard abbreviations for these bodies, e.g. GMC, in your text, providing that the full name is given at the first citing with the abbreviation in brackets. For example:
The General Medical Council (GMC) provides guidance on disclosing patient information (2018). The issue of trust is also referred to in their guidance around communicable diseases (GMC 2017).
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