How to Cite FEMA As a Reference in an Essay

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (also known as FEMA) is in charge of dealing with national disasters in the U.S. There are two types of resources you could be dealing with when referencing FEMA in an essay. There is either the agency's website, which makes it an electronic source, or a FEMA document, which is referenced in the same manner as any government document. While you can use any citation style, the two most common choices are MLA (Modern Language Association) and APA (American Psychological Association).

Instructions

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      Cite FEMA as an online source in APA format by listing the author, the publication date, the title and the URL. For example: Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2008). Fema Information. Retrieved from http://www.fema.gov.

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      Cite FEMA documents using APA with the author, the publication date, the document's name, the report number, the city of publication and the publisher. For example: Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2007). National Disaster Grant (FY 2008). Washington, D.C.: Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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      Cite in-text for APA format by using the author and the date of publication. For example: (FEMA, 2008). The first time you reference in-text, you should use the full name of the agency but all subsequent citations can use the FEMA abbreviation.

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      Cite in-text for MLA by using the author and the page number in parentheses. As with APA, the first in-text citation should spell out the agency's name. For example: (Federal Emergency Management Agency, 24). If a page number is not available for an online source, just list FEMA either in the text of the paper or in parentheses.

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      Cite for MLA with FEMA documents with the author, the title, publication date, location and publisher, and the medium of the document. For example: Federal Emergency Management Agency. National Disaster Grant. Chicago: Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2008. Print.

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      Cite online FEMA sources in MLA with the Web page's title, the website, the publisher, the date, the medium and the access date. For example: "FEMA Information." Fema.gov. Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2008. Web. 3 July 2011.

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