Helpful Tip
- 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. You can use this table created by 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:
Author Surname, First Initial. Second Initial. (Last update or copyright date; if not
known, put n.d.). Title of specific document. Retrieved from Name of University
website: URL of specific document
Example
In-Text Citation (Paraphrase):
(Johnson & Becker, n.d.)
In-Text Citation (Quotation):
(Johnson & Becker, n.d.)
References:
Johnson, K. A., & Becker, J. A. (n.d.). The whole brain atlas. Retrieved from Harvard
University Medical School website: http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/
