The Publisher is the organization or company that paid for the creation or publication of the source.
Publishers might be:
List the publisher's full name name, including its punctuation.
Leave Out
When styling the Publisher's name, omit these words:
Government agencies are often under larger departments. List the largest department as the publisher.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. So when citing the FDA website, you would list the Department as the publisher. Standard abbreviations are acceptable.
Leave out the Publisher when it is repetitive or one is not named. Here are some cases when the Publisher is omitted.
These examples show where the Publisher fits inside the bigger works cited entry: