APA--Organizational Author

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Section 10.4.2.12

Organizational Author

If the author of a source is a corporation, an agency, or a group, list the full name of the organization in your first reference. If your audience is familiar with an abbreviation or acronym for the organization, include it in brackets after the full name and use it in subsequent citations. Otherwise, write out the full name of the organization in each citation.


The standard performance measures (United States Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration [FAA], 1989) were used to evaluate the system.

A "Missed Decision" is defined as a "failure of a runway-status light to illuminate as it should" (FAA, 1989, p. 34).


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