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IB Theatre - Production Proposal (first assessment 2024): Government Documents

This guide provides resources for the Production Proposal internal assessment task for IB Theatre (first assessment 2024).

Government Documents

Note: If you are citing a page or article from a government website, see Citation examples for websites with individual or group author.

Government Document/Report from a Website

 

Works Cited List Citation

Author's Last Name, First Name if given. Title of Document: Subtitle if Given. Edition if given and is not first edition, Name of Government Department, Agency or Committee, Publication Date, URL. Accessed Day Month Year viewed (optional, add if there is no upload/publication date).

Note: If you are using a pdf version of the document, add the following at the end of your citation: PDF download.

Examples:

Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2015, www.trc.ca/assets/pdf/Executive_Summary_English_Web.pdf. PDF download.

Mashford-Pringle, Angela et al. What We Heard: Indigenous Peoples and COVID-19. Public Health Agency of Canada, Feb. 2021, www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/documents/corporate/publications/chief-public-health-officer-reports-state-public-health-canada/from-risk-resilience-equity-approach-covid-19/indigenous-peoples-covid-19-report/cpho-wwh-report-en.pdf. PDF download.

In-Text Citation

(Last Name Page Number if given), or if author is not given (Title of Document Page Number if given)

Note: If the source has a long title, you may shorten it in your in-text citation by using the first word/phrase from the title.

Examples:

(Honouring the Truth 15)

(Mashford-Pringle et al. 24)

Government Document in Print

 

Works Cited List Citation

Author's Last Name, First Name if given. Title of Document: Subtitle if Given. Edition if given and is not first edition, Name of Government Department, Agency or Committee, Publication Date.

Example:

Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2015.

In-Text Citation

(Last Name Page Number), or if author is not given (Title of Document Page Number)

Note: If the source has a long title, you may shorten it in your in-text citation by using the first word/phrase from the title.

Example:

(Honouring the Truth 15)

Tips for Citing Government Documents

Access Date

Works from the web can typically be changed or removed at any time, so while it's optional, the date which you accessed material is often important.  This is especially true when there is no date specifying when an item was produced.This date will be added to the end of the entry. E.g. Accessed 23 July 2016.

Dates

The format of dates is: Day Month (shortened) Year. E.g. 5 Sept. 2012.

Whether to give the year alone or include a month and day depends on your source: write the full date as you find it there.

If no date is listed, omit it unless you can find that information available in a reliable source.

Titles

Capitalize the first letter of every important word in the title. You do not need to capitalize words such as: in, of, or an.

If there is a colon (:) in the title, include what comes after the colon (also known as the subtitle).

         

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