Helpful Tips
- 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 number [if available])
References:
Author Surname, First Initial. Second Initial. (Year; if not known, put n.d.). Title of
entry. In Editor First Initial. Second Initial. Surname (Ed.), Title of reference work
(edition, Vol. #). Retrieved from URL
Example
In-Text Citation (Paraphrase):
(Graham, 2005)
In-Text Citation (Quotation):
(Graham, 2005)
References:
Graham, G. (2005). Behaviorism. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of
philosophy (Fall 2007 ed.). Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries
/behaviorism/
