Policies, Guidelines & Standards

Policies, Guidelines, and Standards may include procedures, forms, and any other organization documents.

	Format	Example
Policies Guidelines Standards Procedures Forms and/or other organization documents	#. Author AA, Author BB or Organization Name. Title of report or policy. Document number (if available). Month Day, Year of publication. Updated Month Day, Year (if applicable). Accessed Month Day, Year. URL (if available) Note: Do not include a link to documents stored on SharePoint or other restricted websites. Only include links to documents available publicly. If referencing documents from the SHA Document Finder, use the "permalink" URL and not the PDF URL.	1. Saskatchewan Health Authority. Medication reconciliation. SHA-08-002. July 16, 2020. Accessed July 18, 2022. https://documentfinder.saskhealthauthority.ca/en/permalink/policies608 If the document is not available online: 2. Saskatchewan Health Authority. Use of patient education materials in long-term care environments. SHA-123. February 28, 2015. Updated August 4, 2020.
Reports and white papers	Author AA, Author BB or Organization Name. Title of report or white paper. Name of issuing agency, department, or government division; Month Day, Year of publication. Publication number (if available). Accessed Month Day, Year. URL of report or white paper if available	1. Macdonald M, Kulakiewicz A. Tackling Loneliness. House of Commons Library; June 14, 2021. CBP8514. Accessed August 2, 2022. https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk//documents/CBP-8514/CBP-8514.pdf

General Rules

How to format in-text citations in your document.
Author/editor names: Last name + First name initial + Middle name initial (if available). e.g., Armand Peter Smith = Smith AP.
The names of all authors and editors should be given unless there are more than 6 (7 or more), in which case the names of the first 3 authors are used, followed by “et al”). e.g., Smith TP, Brown A, McLane E, et al.
No authors, organization, or editors listed? Contact library@saskhealthauthority.ca to ask a librarian.
Titles: Follow examples when using upper- and lowercase initials and italics. Do not use quotation marks for titles (e.g., "Title").
Subtitles: Use the colon (i.e., : ) to separate the title from the subtitle. e.g., Rural Healthcare: A Definitive Guide.
Dates: Spell out the full month name for 'Accessed' date. e.g., June, not Jun or 06.
Proper nouns: Always capitalize the first initial of country/city, person, clinical tool, organization, and/or association names.