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Policies, Guidelines & Standards

  Format Example
  • Policies
  • Guidelines
  • Standards
  • Procedures
  • Forms
  • and/or other organization documents

#. Department or Organization Name. Title of policy/procedure [Internet]. Place of publication: Publisher; Publication date YYYY MMM DD [cited YYYY MMM DD]. Total # of pages. Document No.: # (if available). Available from: URL

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.

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1. Saskatchewan Health Authority. Medication reconciliation. [Internet]. Regina (SK): Saskatchewan Health Authority; 2020 [cited 2022 Jul 18]. 11 p. Document No.: SHA-08-002. Available from: https://documentfinder.saskhealthauthority.ca

2. Five Hills Health Region. Information technology security and passwords [Internet]. Moose Jaw (SK): Saskatchewan Health Authority; 1996 [cited 2005 Feb 4]. 5 p. Document No.: FHHR 326. Available from: https://documentfinder.saskhealthauthority.ca/

 

If the document is not available online:

3. Saskatchewan Health Authority. Use of patient education materials in long-term care environments. Regina (SK): Saskatchewan Health Authority; 2015. 10 p. Document No.: SHA-123.
Reports and white papers

Author AA, Author BB or Organization Name. Title of report or white paper [Internet]. Place of publication: Publisher; Publication date YYYY MMM DD [cited YYYY MMM DD]. Total # of pages. Report No.: # (if available). Available from: URL

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1. Macdonald M, Kulakiewicz. Tackling loneliness [Internet]. London: House of Commons Library; 2021 Jun 14 [cited 2022 Aug 2]. 72 p. Report no.: CBP8514. Available from: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/

2. University of Waterloo Working Group on Bibliometrics. Measuring research outputs through bibliometrics [Internet]. Waterloo (ON): University of Waterloo; 2016 [cited 2022 May 12]. 55 p. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/10323

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. See Reference List General Rules for the use of "et al."
  • No authors, organization, or editors listed? Contact library@saskhealthauthority.ca to ask a librarian.
  • Titles: Capitalize only the first word of a title, proper nouns, proper adjectives, acronyms, and initialisms. Do not use quotation marks or italics for titles.
  • Subtitles: Use the colon (i.e., : ) to separate the title from the subtitle. e.g., Rural healthcare: a definitive guide.
  • Dates: Whenever possible use the date format [YYYY Mon DD].
  • Proper nouns: Always capitalize the first initial of country/city, person, clinical tool, organization, and/or association names.