APA Citation Style 7th Edition

About Citing Websites

When citing a website, take note of the author, title, the publisher, publication date, and the date you accessed the site.

For each type of source in this guide, both the general form and a specific example will be provided.

The following format will be used:

In-text Citation - entry that appears in the body of your paper.

References - entry that appears at the end of your paper

Basic Web Page (pp. 350)

When citing sources that you find on the Internet you must include a retrieval date only when the information you viewed is likely to change over time (p. 192). This usually pertains to wikis and blogs.

General Format

In-Text Citation (Paraphrase):

(Author Surname, Year)

In-Text Citation (Quotation):

(Author Surname, Year, page or paragraph number [if available])

References:

Personal or Corporate Author. (Last update or copyright date; if not known, put n.d.).

         Title of specific document. URL of specific document

Example

In-Text Citation (Paraphrase):

(Dawson, 1987)

In-Text Citation (Quotation):

(Dawson, 1987, para. 5)

References:

Dawson, A.T. (1987). A survey of Canadian Aboriginal writers.

          http://www.huop.ubc.ca/~martha/Martha/cs/survey.html

Detailed Examples:

Web page

Lee, J. (1997). Kinship and family ties. http://www.postcolonialweb.org/nz/maorijlg2b.html

In-text citation 

(Lee, 1997)

 Web page with no author

Kinship and family ties. (1997). http://www.postcolonialweb.org/nz/maorijlg2b.html

In-text citation 

("Kinship and family ties," 1997)

 Web page with no date

Lee, J. (n.d.). Kinship and family ties. http://www.postcolonialweb.org/nz/maorijlg2b.html

In-text citation  (Lee, n.d.)

Learn More

The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University offers an online resource which can be used in some cases.  However, it does not include everything required for citing sources in one place.

The APA citation style does not cover Canadian government sources, and has only a limited section on American government resources.

Please refer to the staff at the Library Reference Desk for clarification when citing Canadian government sources.