The phrase "authoritative document" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a document that is recognized as a reliable and official source of information or guidelines.
Example: "The new policy will be based on the authoritative document issued by the regulatory body."
Alternatives: "official document" or "reliable source".
After these talks, Francis will issue his "apostolic exhortation" – an authoritative document – on these contentious issues.
"It is certainly not being treated by voters as an independent, authoritative document.
Intelligence officials, responding to repeated complaints from Senate Democrats, said today that they were working on the authoritative document.
The N.I.E., the most authoritative document that the intelligence community produces, represents the agencies' coördinated judgments about the various perils the nation faces.
This was a chance for the Scottish government to put meat on the bones of its constitutional arguments, giving the people an authoritative document to inform their opinions.
"This is based on a great deal of information gathering that we have done and we've synthesized and we've put it together in an authoritative document, and we believe that it will be taken seriously by many around the world".
The trustees' reports are authoritative documents prepared by career civil servants, mainly actuaries, and are full of data used as a basis for policy making and political debate.
As a result of the publication of several authoritative documents linking DHA and health, the public and healthcare providers are becoming more aware of the importance of this nutrient in the human diet.
Care is needed to ensure that the soft, natural monopoly that arises from the creation of authoritative documents by authoritative sources does not harden into real impediments to the free flow of public information, as it did in the case of judicial opinions.
He expressed the hope that the upcoming Vatican encyclical – the most authoritative documents a pope can issue – on the environment, would encourage negotiators at the United Nations climate change conference in Paris in November to make courageous decisions to protect God's creation.
Although he said he was wary of linking individual storms to climate change, he added that scientific research laid out in authoritative documents like the National Climate Assessment of 2015 state that a warming climate increases the likelihood of "rainier storms," with an increased risk of flooding.
