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The Book format is used when referencing government reports.
The following details should be provided for reports in a reference list:
Examples
Australia, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet 2015, Final report of the National Ice Taskforce, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Canberra.
Here is a link to the PDF publication online so you can see the difference between the information presented on the publication and the way it is referenced.
Other Examples:
Australia, Parliament, Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, 2016, Payment of cash or other inducements by the Commonwealth of Australia in exchange for the turn back of asylum seeker boats: interim report, Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Canberra.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2017, National drug strategy household survey 2016: detailed findings, Drug Statistics series no. 31, Cat. no. PHE 214, AIHW, Canberra.
Parliament of Victoria, Law Reform, Road and Community Safety Committee, 2018, Inquiry into drug law reform, Victorian Government Printer, Melbourne.
Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision 2020, Report on Government services, viewed 1 June 2020, <https://www.pc.gov.au/research/ongoing/report-on-government>.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2019, National drug strategy household survey 2019, viewed 3 June 2020, <https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/illicit-use-of-drugs/2016-ndshsdetailed/contents/table-of-contents>.
Examples:
General: (Australia, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet 2015)
With a page reference: (Australia, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet 2015, p.55)
(Australia, Parliament, Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, 2016)
(AIHW 2017)
Note: if you use this format in text, remember to add the following line in your reference list
AIHW – see Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
(Parliament of Victoria, Law Reform, Road and Community Safety Committee, 2018)
(Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision 2020)
Sometimes it is difficult to find all the referencing information for a particular report, for example, Bringing them home - the report about the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders from their communities.
One way of obtaining this information quickly is to use Google. Enter the name of the report + nla OR the name of the report + trove to locate a National Library Catalogue record about this publication
Here is an example from the result list on Google. It provides all the information required to reference this report.
Once upon a time, the Australian Bureau of Statistics produced beautiful hard copy and PDF publications which could be referenced as books.
Things have changed a bit and now they tend to produce information in web page format. These pages include downloads in the form of 'data cubes' in excel format. When referencing these publications, use the Documents from electronic sources format.
Examples:
Australian Bureau of Statistics 2018, Recorded Crime - Offenders, 2016-17, cat. no. 4519.0, viewed 23 July 2018 from <http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/4519.0>.
Here is a link to the publication online so you can see the difference between the information presented on the page and the way it is referenced.
Examples:
(Australian Bureau of Statistics 2018)
You can also use (ABS 2018)
However, if you do this, remember to add the following line in the reference list:
ABC – see Australian Bureau of Statistics.