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American Psychological Association (APA): Websites and Parts of Websites

American Psychological Association (APA) is the style of documentation of sources used by the American Psychological Association which is utilized when writing research papers.

Websites and Parts of Websites

Entire Website

If you retrieved specific information from the home page of a website, include the website name, retrieval date, and URL in your reference list entry. If you only mention the website in the body of your paper, do not include it in your reference list.

Page from a Website

Use one of the models below only when your source doesn't fit into any other category. These models are for content found on an interior page of a website and not published elsewhere. The website name follows the page title unless the author and website name are the same.

National Institute of Mental Health. (2016, March). Seasonal affective disorder. National

Institutes of Health. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/seasonal

-affective-disorder/index.shtml

BBC News. (2019, October 31). California fires: Goats help save Ronald Reagan

Presidential Library. https://www.bbc.com/news/world/us/canada-50248549

Document from a Website

Document from a Website

Most documents published on websites fall into other categories, such as an article, a government document, or a report from an organization.

Tahseen, M., Ahmed, S., & Ahmed, S. (2018). Bullying of Muslim youth: a review

of research and recommendations. The Family and Youth Institute.

http://www.thefyi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/FYI-Bullying-Report.pdf

Key

Authors: last name + initial(s). Year. Document title. Website. URL.

Blog Post

Cite a blog post as you would an article in a periodical.

Fister, B. (2019, February 14). Information literacy's third wave. Library Babel Fish.

https://www.insidehighered.com/blog/library-babel-fish/information-literacy

%E2%80%99s-third-wave

Blog Comment

Treat a comment on a blog post s you would a comment on an online article. Use a screen name if the writer's real name is not given.

Mollie, F. (2019, February 14). It's a daunting task, isn't it? Last year, I got a course

on Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy approved for [Comment o

the blog post 'Information literacy's third wave"]. Library Babel Fish. http://disq

.us/p/1zr92uc

Work Cited

Hacker, Diana. A Writer's Reference. Tenth edition. Boston ; New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2021. Print.