Report: how to cite in Chicago Style – author-date (17th ed.)?

Create a spot-on reference in Chicago 18, 17 and 16

Select a source type:

Book Website Journal article Video (online)

Archival document Blog post Book Book chapter Complete reference Conference paper Copyright certificate Court case Dictionary Dictionary entry Disc Dissertation / Thesis Encyclopedia Encyclopedia article Extended abstract of dissertation Image Journal article Law / Act Newspaper article Patent Podcast Preprint Press release Religious text Report Social media post Software Standard Video (online) Video game Website

General rules

The 'author-date' system of Chicago Style imposes the same rules for referencing organisational reports as Chicago Style – notes and bibliography, namely the following:

• there is no specific template of reference for a report; the template for referencing a book is used instead;
• the author of a report is most often an organisation, but it can also be an individual;
• a report can have editors, compilers, etc.; the names of such contributors are given after the title;
• for documents available online, indicate the URL address at which they can be accessed.

So, the following template can be used for referencing an organisational report in a bibliography in accordance with the requirements of Chicago Style – author-date (17th ed.):

Author. Year. Title. Edited by Editor. City: Publisher. URL.

Examples in a list of references

UNESCO. 2018. World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development: Regional Overview of Asia Pacific, 2017/2018. Paris: UNESCO. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000266192?posInSet=11&queryId=N-8639500c-0275-466f-a369-680b3eb0d981.

World Economic Forum. 2020. The Global Risks Report 2020. Cologny: WEF. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risk_Report_2020.pdf.