Box 43Government agencies and other national and international bodies as publisher

• When citing publishers that are national bodies such as government agencies, if a nationality is not part of the name, place the country in parentheses after the name, using the two-letter ISO country code (see Appendix D)

  • National Cancer Institute (US)
  • National Society on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NZ)
  • Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd. (GB)
  • Royal College of Physicians (AU), Paediatrics & Child Health Division
• Do not confuse the publisher with the distributor of documents for the publisher. The most common distributors of US government agency publications are the US Government Printing Office (GPO) and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Designate the agency that issued the publication as the publisher and provide the URL of the distributor, preceded by "Available from:" and a space.

  • Jacobson WB. Safe from the start: taking action on children exposed to violence; summary [Internet]. Washington: Department of Justice (US), Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; 2000 Nov [cited 2006 Nov 6]. 54 p. Available from: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS41638