Using the web to find information for your APA format school paper is the easiest way for students. Since it’s easy to upload content daily or even hourly, the information is current. Follow the APA 7 citation format for the source and add the website address at the end.
Basic APA Citation Format
Websites can offer a plethora of resources for your APA format paper. However, remember that not everything online is a reliable source. For example, you can look at the URL of the website and review the publisher and author. Website addresses that end in edu or .gov are typically reliable.
To cite resources from a website, use the basic APA citation format. Include the URL or DOI but do not place a period after the web address.
Author, A. (Date). Title of article: Subtitle of article. Publisher. //www.xxxxxxx.com
If there is no author, use the organization’s name or the title of the article in its place.
No Author
Example
American College Health Association. (2015). National College Health Assessment II: Spring 2015 reference group executive summary. //www.acha-ncha.org/reports_ACHA-NCHAII.html
Newspaper Article
Example
Roth, C. (2019, November 11). Group gathers at state Capitol in support of DACA on eve of Supreme Court case. Arizona Republic. //www.azcentral.com
Online Magazine Article Citation
Example
Haidt, J. & Rose-Stockwell, T. (2019, December). The dark psychology of social networks: Why it feels like everything is going haywire. The Atlantic. //www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/social-media-democracy/600763/
Online Journal Article Citation
Example
Lakoff, G. (2014). Mapping the brain’s metaphor circuitry: Metaphorical thought in everyday reason. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (8). //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267278/
Electronic Book Citation
Ebook Citation Example
Jha, N. (2011). English speaking and grammar through Hindi. BookRix. //www.bookrix.com/_ebook-niranjan-jha-english-speaking-and-grammar-through-hindi/
Print/Online Book Citation Example
London, J. (2008). The call of the wild [Ebook #215]. The Project Gutenberg. //www.gutenberg.org/files/215/215-h/215-h.htm
Blog Post Citation
Blog Citation Example
Millard, D. (2019, November 8). The Public Domain Review rockets the oddities of the past into the present. The Outline. //theoutline.com/post/8208/the-public-domain-review-rockets-the-oddities-of-the-past-into-the-present
Blog Comment Citation
Example
Brodsky, J. (2019, November 6). An inspiring story for writers: Could this be you someday [Comment on the blog post “An Inspiring Story for Writers: Could This Be Someday?]. Kathy Steinemann. //kathysteinemann.com/Musings/impact/#more-4569
Online Forum Message Citation
Example
SocialButterfly. (2018, November 23). How do I tell a family member that they have gained weight in a polite encouraging way. [Comment on the blog post “How to talk to family”]. Quora. //www.quora.com/
Video Blog Post Citation
Example
Bialik, M. (n.d.). Stigma free [Video]. YouTube. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8gKy5eKupw
Online Map Citation
Example
United States Geological Survey. (1960). Albuquerque West. USGS AASG. //ngmdb.usgs.gov/img4/ht_icons/overlay/NM/NM_Albuquerque%20West_193696_1960_24000_geo.jpg
Podcast Citation
Example
Taylor, H. [Executive Producer]. (2019, November 10). Season 14: Theory and technique. [Audio podcast episode]. Writing Excuses. //writingexcuses.com/
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Johnson, A. (2018, May 24). “It doesn’t need to be this way”: The promise of specialised early intervention in psychosis services. IEPA. //iepa.org.au/network-news/it-doesnt-need-to-be-this-way-the-promise-of-specialised-early-intervention-in-psychosis-services/
Where a title already contains punctuation, such as the double quotes in the above example, retain these in your reference.
Webpage on a Website: Group Author and no date
Of course, massage is also effective for many musculoskeletal disorders (Association of Massage Therapists, n.d.).Association of Massage Therapists. (n.d.). Benefits of massage. //www.amt.org.au/massage-and-you/benefits-of-massage.html
Use the abbreviation n.d. (no date) in place of the year of publication.
When the author and the site name are the same, omit the site name.
Webpage on a Website: Retrieval date required Australia's population as at January 2020 is 25,577,330, and is increasing at the rate of one person every 1 minute and 23 seconds (Australian Bureau of Statistics, n.d.).Australian Bureau of Statistics. (n.d.). Population clock. Retrieved January 22, 2020, from //www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs%40.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/ 1647509ef7e25faaca2568a900154b63?OpenDocument
Use (n.d.) in place of the year and include a retrieval statement for any webpage where the contents are continuously updated and not archived.
Where the author and name of a webpage are the same, omit the site name.
Web Document: Organisational author Exercise may be the last thing you feel like doing, but it can help (Black Dog Institute, 2017).Black Dog Institute. (2017). Managing depression with exercise. //www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/docs/default-source/factsheets/managingdepressionwithexercise.pdf?sfvrsn=16
Web Document: No Author…may not predict outcomes in later life (Researchers Replicate Famous, 2018).
OR
A recent article, Researchers Replicate Famous (2018), revisited earlier findings…
When a work has no identified author, cite in-text the first few words of the reference entry (usually the title) and the year. If the title is italicised in the Reference List, also use italics in the in text citation. Use Title Case in the in text citation, even though sentence case is used in the Reference List.
Researchers replicate famous marshmallow test, make new observations. (2018, May 25). Medical Xpress. //medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-replicate-famous-marshmallow.html?utm_source=tabs&utm_medium=link&utm _campaign=story-tabs
Web Document: MIMS Online
Plavix, generic name Clopidogrel has been effective in treating… (MIMS Australia, 2019).
MIMS Australia. (2019, December 1). Plavix. In MIMS Online. //www-mimsonline-
com-au.ap1.proxy.openathens.net/Search/FullPI.aspx?ModuleName=Product%
20Info&searchKeyword=plavix&PreviousPage=~/Search/QuickSearch.
aspx&SearchType=&ID=40890001_2
Publication date: Use revision date as listed.
Blog Post & Comment…attempts to dissuade inadvertently entrench a mistaken belief (Stafford, 2018).
…withdrawal from antipsychotic medications (markps2, 2017).
Note that the author's screen name does not have any capitals, so we retain it exactly as found, both in-text and in the Reference list (see right).
Stafford, T. (2018, January 3). The backfire effect is elusive. Mind Hacks. //mindhacks.com/2018/01/03/the-backfire-effect-is-elusive/
A blog comment where the author uses a username or screen name would be referenced as follows:
markps2. (2017, May 31). For researchers to study… when people stop taking “Antipsychotics also known as neuroleptics or major tranquilizers” they can have withdrawal [Comment on the article "What triggers that feeling of being watched?"]. Mind Hacks. //mindhacks.com/2017/05/26/what-triggers-that-feeling-of-being-watched/#comments
If the comment has no title, use the first up to 20 words of the comment as the title, retaining punctuation.