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APA Style: Abbreviating Corporate Authors

Abbreviating the names of corporate authors in citations is optional, not required.

Abbreviating the names of corporate authors is permitted if

  • the abbreviation is well known; and
  • the abbreviation will be used at least three times in the paper.

(Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 2020, p. 268)

Basic In-Text Citation Styles
Corporate author with abbreviation Parenthetical citation Narrative citation

First citation

Subsequent citations

(University of British Columbia [UBC], 2020)

(UBC, 2020)

University of British Columbia (UBC, 2020)

UBC (2020)

 

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