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SUBJECT LIBGUIDE: LEARNING APA: REFERENCES: WEBSITES

APA is the style of documentation of sources used by the American Psychological Association. This form of writing research papers is used mainly in the social sciences, like psychology, anthropology, sociology, as well as education and other fields.

Website Citation: Breaking down the citation in parts

Author, A. A. & Author B. B.  

  • Authors last name, first and middle name initials
  • If your source uses an Organizations Name, you use the organizations’ name i.e  Red Cross; Midwestern Career College
  • If there is no author, use the title of your source:
  • All Proper nouns must be capitalized
  • Punctuation Counts. Put a comma after each author and period after your  last author
  • Use et al. if there are more than 3 authors  

(Date of publication).

  • Use Parenthesis: (Year)
  • Place a period after the closing parenthesis (Year).
  • Put the year of the source in the parenthesis
  • Websites differ where they place the copyright year. Some examples are below. Search the page for the year or if the website has a published date and it can be found in links on the bottom of the page such as privacy policy, terms or other forms of links
  • If your source has a published year, it will be within the page

Title of page.

  • This refers to the name of your source used in your paper
  • The first letter of the Title and: Subtitle must be capitalized.
  • All Proper nouns must be capitalized
  • Put a period after your title
  • Title must be Italizec

Webpage Link

  • The source is the webpage used in your paper
  • add the website you used
  • Example: https:mccollege.edu

Citation: Website Examples