Corporate Author
An organisation credited as the author of a work when no individual is named.
A corporate author (also 'group author' or 'institutional author') is a body — an agency, company, committee, or charity — cited in the author position because the work is issued in its name. Government reports, standards, and annual statements are the usual cases.
Style guides ask you to spell the name out in full at first mention and, if you plan to shorten it, to introduce the abbreviation there: (World Health Organization [WHO], 2023) and thereafter (WHO, 2023).
Alphabetising is the common trap. A corporate author is filed under the first significant word of its name, not under an initial article, and not under the country unless the country genuinely begins the official name.
Common mistake: reaching for 'Anonymous' when a publishing organisation is visible on the title page. Anonymous is reserved for works that explicitly present themselves as by an unnamed person.
“(National Institute for Health and Care Excellence [NICE], 2022)”
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Crediting a work or quotation to an unnamed author, and doing it honestly.
A formal reference that lets a reader locate the source of a quote.
A citation family that identifies sources in text by author surname and year of publication.
An unnumbered note that credits the origin of a whole chapter, table, epigraph, or image.