Fact Sheet References

This page contains reference examples for fact sheets.

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. (n.d.). Asbestos in your environment: What you can do to limit exposure [Fact sheet]. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/docs/limitingenvironmentalexposures_factsheet-508.pdf

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (2023). Delivering service in school-based settings: A comprehensive guide to Medicaid services and administrative claiming [Fact sheet]. https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/delivering-service-school-based-settings-comprehensive-guide-medicaid-services-and-administrative

• Parenthetical citations: (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, n.d.; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2023)
• Narrative citations: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (n.d.) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (2023)

• Fact sheets follow the same format as reports.
• Include the description “[Fact sheet]” in square brackets after the title of the fact sheet.
• When the multiple layers of government agencies are credited (as in the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry example), provide the most specific agency in the author element of the reference. Provide the parent agency in the source element of the reference as the publisher.
• When only one agency is credited as the author (as in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services example), provide that agency as the author. Omit the agency name from the source element to avoid repetition.

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References for fact sheets follow the report reference template in the seventh edition APA Style manuals in the Publication Manual Section 10.4 and the Concise Guide Section 10.4

This guidance has been revised from the 6th edition.