APA citation/reference advice

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I'm having difficulty in the format for a reference to a study found on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality website. The report itself provides a "Suggested Citation" that does not conform at all to APA (not unusual actually). Just what the APA format is though, is very difficult to determine. The trouble is there are authors, but the sponsor is a government agency. There is nothing in the OWL guide that covers this so I went to Citation Machine but I'm suspicious of the results there as well:

Smith, J., Jones, A, & Brown, D. (2010). US Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Issues and challenges in formatting references in american psychiatric association style: A primer. (Publication No. 09-0000). Rockville, MD: AHRQ Publication.

Has anyone run across this type of reference problem before and how did you handle it?

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Do not quote me, but you have the author's so I do not think the agency is nec. The agency would be in the author placement if you could not obtain the author or if the author wasn't presented. Is it an internet site, because that changes the whole citation?

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