Departementsserien (Ds)
The APA (7th edition) manual does not contain any specific instructions on how to refer to government publications outside of the United States. The recommendation is instead to format the references according to guidelines in each country. In this section you will find our recommendations on how to refer to reports in Departementsserien (Ds). If you accessed the report online, include the URL of the website from which it was retrieved in the reference.
Do not forget to consult the general instructions on how to write references according to APA (7th edition), including how to write in-text references and construct a reference list, the number of authors to be included, how to write references to two or more works within the same parenthesis, what to do if you have several references with the same author and publication date, how you cite specific parts of works, how to handle incomplete reference information (e.g. missing author information or no publication date), and when/how to use acronyms.
| Template |
| Organization/Agency. (Year). Title (Ds YYYY:Number). Publisher. URL |
Example:
| In-text references |
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| (Miljödepartementet, 2017) |
Miljödepartementet (2017) establishes that... |
| Reference list |
| Ministry of the Environment. (2017). Biologisk mångfald och ekosystemtjänster: Kontrollstation 2016 [Biodiversity and ecosystem services: targets for 2016] (Ds 2017:32). Regeringskansliet. https://www.regeringen.se/rattsliga-dokument/departementsserien-och-promemorior/2017/07/ds.-201732/ |
