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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

Entire Website

Do not include an entire website in the reference list. Give the URL in parentheses when you mention it in the text of you paper.

 

Document from a Website

Document from a Website

List as many of the following elements as are available: author's name, publication date (or "n.d." if there is no date), title (in italics), publisher (if any), and URL. If the publisher is known and is not named as the author, include the publisher in your retrieval statement.

 

Badrunnesha, M.,  & Kwauk, C. (2015, December). Improving the quality of girls' education in madrasa in

Bangladesh. Retrieved from BrookingsInstitution website: http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2015/12/05-

bangladesh-girls-education-madrasa-badrunnesha

 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2012, December 10). Concussion in winter sports. Retrieved from

http://www.cdc.gov/Features/HockeyConcussions/index.html

Section in a Web Document

Section in a Web Document

Cite as you would a chapter in a book or a selection in an anthology. (see entry for Selection in an Anthology or a Collection, Option B.)

 

Pew Research Center. (2015, October 22). About the 2012 Current Population Survey. In Self-employed workers and

job creation. Retrieved from http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/10/22/three-in-ten-u-s-jobs-are-held-by-the-self-

employed-and -the-workers-they-hire

Blog Post

Blog Post

If the writer's real name and screen name are both given, put the real name first, followed by the screen name in brackets. Add the date of the post (or "n.d." if the post is undated). Place the label "Blog post" in brackets following the title of the post. If there is no title, use the bracketed material as the title. End with the URL for the post.

 

Constandi, M. (2015, April 9). Why brain scans aren't always what they seem [Blog post]. Retrieved from

http://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosphy/2015/apr/09/bold-assumptions-fmri

Blog Comment

Blog Comment

Cite as a blog pat, but add "Re" and a colon before the title of the original post and the label "Blog comment" in brackets following the title.

 

mkt42. (2015, November 9). Re: Big data and the logic of consumerism [Blog comment]. Retrieved from

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/big-data-and-logic-consumerism

Source

Work Cited

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