There are MANY types of grey literature. Most follow the guidelines below. Detailed information can be found in Chapter 10 of the 7th edition of the APA manual (pp. 329-337).
Additional examples:
| Generic: |
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of report (Report No. 1234 [if available]). Publisher Name. https://xxxxxxxxxxx |
| Example: |
National Cancer Institute. (2018). Facing forward: Life after cancer treatment (NIH Publication No. 18-2424). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health. https://www.cancer.gov/publications/patient-education/life-after-treatment.pdf |
| Generic: | Investigator, A. A. (Principal Investigator). (Year, Month Day). Title of clinical trial (Identifier No. XXXXXX). Publisher Name. Retrieved Month, Day, Year, from https://xxxxxxxxxxx |
| Example: |
Reaven, J. (Principal Investigator). (2020, April 10). Facing your fears in schools: Implementing a CBT program for students with ASD or other special learning needs (Identifier No. NCT03685474). ClinicalTrials.gov. Retrieved September 23, 2020, from https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT03685474
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| Generic: |
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of grey literature [Description of form]. Publisher Name. https://xxxxxxxxxxx |
| Example: |
Centers for Disease Control. (2018). HPV and men [Fact sheet]. https://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stdfact-hpv-and-men.htm |
Items of note:
There are two types of dissertations and/or Theses - published and unpublished.
Published theses might be found in a library database (usually ProQuest), or in an online institutional archive.
| Unpublished Generic: |
Author, A. A. (Year). Title of work [Unpublished doctoral dissertation; Unpublished master's thesis]. Name of Institution Awarding the Degree. |
| Unpublished Example: |
Jacobs, N. L. (2006). Bach to the future: Style galant in the Italian Concerto BWV 971 [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. St. Thomas Leipzig Universität. |
| Database Generic: |
Author, A. A. (Year). Title of work (Publication No. if available) [Doctoral dissertation/Master's thesis, Name of Institution Awarding the Degree]. Publisher Name. |
| Database Example: |
D'Elia, P. (2009). Clementi's Bach: The “Well-Tempered Clavier”, “Gradus ad Parnassum,” and the prelude (Publication No. 1463926) [Master's Thesis, Tufts University]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global. |
| Institutional Archive Generic: |
Author, A. A. (Year). Title of work (Publication No. if available) [Doctoral dissertation/Master's thesis, Name of Institution Awarding the Degree]. Name of Archive. https://www.xxxxxxxx |
| Institutional Archive Example: |
Grigsby, N. (2014). Bach’s creative journey: A study of source, circumstance, genre, interpretation and procedure in the earliest music of J. S. Bach (1685-1750) [Doctoral dissertation, University of Waikato]. University of Waikato Research Commons, Higher Degree Theses. https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/9625 |
Pre-print articles are author manuscripts that have not yet been published in scholarly journals. They have NOT YET BEEN peer reviewed and/or accepted into a journal. If you use a pre-print in a paper, you must acknowledge in the text that this is a preliminary study that has not yet been peer reviewed.
| Pre-print Generic: |
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (year) Title of the article: Subtitle if applicable. Name of preprint repository. https://doi.org/xxxxxxxx |
| Pre-print Example: |
Nyman, T. J., Antfolk, J., Lampinen, J., Tuomisto, M., Kaakinen, J. K., Korkman, J., & Santtila, P. (2018). A stab in the dark. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7efpx |
