Mintel is a resource publishing market research reports, consumer trends and data. Many of the reports name individuals who have authored them and so the example below demonstrates the style that should be used in this instance. If no-one is named as the author of the information on the page you are looking at then Mintel would be given as the corporate author. Please see the "Corporate authors" tab for an example of a reference for this situation.
Shilling (2024) found that food sustainability...
...rise in prices has seen sustainability become less of a focus for many (Shilling 2024).
AUTHOR(S), Year of publication. Report title including series and date if available. Edition (if not the first). Publisher [viewed date]. Available from: short version of URL for resource
SHILLING, I., 2024. Sustainability in Food - UK - 2024. Mintel [viewed 24 May 2024]. Available from: http://www.mintel.com
You may want to include the page number or number range indicating where you found the information you are referring to for some sources. For guidance on how to do this see the ‘Page numbers for in-text references’ section.
Include the details of both authors in the in-text citations and the full reference list.
Only the first author surname is reversed in the full reference list entry.
Vidic and Greene (2024) have referred to the concern...
It is clear that there is a concern around the "extreme information overload" (Vidic and Greene 2024, p.35).
AUTHOR SURNAME, Initial. and Initial. AUTHOR SURNAME, Year of publication. Report title including series and date if available. Edition (if not the first). Publisher [viewed date]. Available from: short version of URL for resource
The format for adding two authors to a full reference is shown below.
VIDIC, P. and L. GREENE, 2024. [Add full reference details for the source type after the author following the format above]
You may want to include the page number or number range indicating where you found the information you are referring to for some sources. For guidance on how to do this see the ‘Page numbers for in-text references’ section.
Include the details of all three authors in both the in-text citations and the full reference list.
Only the first author surname is reversed in the full reference list entry.
Rosa, Harris and Weyers (2021) have referred to the concern...
It is clear that there is a concern around the "extreme information overload" (Rosa, Harris and Weyers 2021).
AUTHOR SURNAME, Initial., Initial. AUTHOR SURNAME and Initial. AUTHOR SURNAME, Year of publication. Report title including series and date if available. Edition (if not the first). Publisher [viewed date]. Available from: short version of URL for resource
The format for adding three authors to a full reference is shown below.
ROSA, L., P. HARRIS and T. WEYERS, 2021. [Add full reference details for the source type after the author following the format above]
You may want to include the page number or number range indicating where you found the information you are referring to for some sources. For guidance on how to do this see the ‘Page numbers for in-text references’ section.
If your source has four or more authors, just include the first author in both the in-text citation and full reference list entry. You will need to add et al. after the first author to indicate there were multiple additional authors.
Svoen et al. (2023) have referred to the concern...
It is clear that there is a concern around the "extreme information overload" (Svoen et al. 2023).
AUTHOR SURNAME, Initial. et al., Year of publication. Report title including series and date if available. Edition (if not the first). Publisher [viewed date]. Available from: short version of URL for resource
The format for adding four or more authors to a full reference is shown below.
SVOEN, L. et al., 2023. [Add full reference details for the source type after the author following the format above]
You may want to include the page number or number range indicating where you found the information you are referring to for some sources. For guidance on how to do this see the ‘Page numbers for in-text references’ section.
A source may sometimes have a corporate author rather than an individual or several people named as author.
A corporate author is an organisation or company, for example, that created the information source.
Add a corporate author by including the full name both in your in-text citation and in your full reference list.
…highlighting brands' desire to been seen as embracing sustainability (Mintel 2024).
Mintel (2024) present evidence that...
CORPORATE AUTHOR, Year of publication. Report title including series and date if available. Edition (if not the first). Publisher [viewed date]. Available from: short version of URL for resource
The format for adding a corporate author to a full reference is shown below.
MINTEL, 2024. [Add full reference details for the source type after the author following the format above]
You may want to include the page number or number range indicating where you found the information you are referring to for some sources. For guidance on how to do this see the ‘Page numbers for in-text references’ section.