Helpful Tips
- When citing sources that you find on the Internet you only need to include a retrieval date if the information you viewed is likely to change over time (p. 192). If you reference an article from Wikipedia, for example, you would want to include a retrieval date because information in a wiki can be subject to a lot of change.
- Sometimes websites are missing pieces of information that you would typically use when citing them, like an author or a date. Consult this blog entry from APA to help you deal with these sources.
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. Retrieved from URL of specific document
Example
In-Text Citation (Paraphrase):
(Browning, 1993)
In-Text Citation (Quotation):
(Browning, 1993, para. 12)
References:
Browning, T. (1993). A brief historical survey of women writers of science fiction.
Retrieved from http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tonya/Tonya/sf/history.html