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Healthy People 2020

Citing Healthy People 2020

An example of a reference citation for Healthy People 2020 is:

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (2016). Heart disease and stroke. In Healthy People 2020. Retrieved from https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/heart-disease-and-stroke

Healthy People 2020 should be italicized ~ like a journal or book title and because the information is from a website, the URL (or web address) needs to be included. References should be in a hanging indent if needed.

The first time you cite this in-text, you should use the following: (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion [ODPHP], 2016).

Subsequent in-text citations can be (ODPHP, 2016).