APA Style (7th ed.)
You may use a corporate or group author name in place of a person’s name. Abbreviate the name to an appropriate acronym only when the abbreviation is well known, avoids cumbersome repetition and/or will appear at least three times in the paper (American Psychological Association, 2020, p.268). When abbreviating a title of an organization within a citation, spell out the full title in the first citation of that source and insert the abbreviation in parentheses after the full title. For example:
- First parenthetical citation: (Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group [VIPIRG], n.d.)
- First narrative citation: Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group (VIPIRG, n.d.)
And either (VIPIRG, n.d.) or VIPIRG (n.d.) in subsequent parenthetical and narrative citations. Use the full name of the author in the reference list. See page 288 in the APA Style manual for more information.
Reference
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000
