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APA 6th Edition: Web page from an .edu site

Utica College Library Guide to APA Citation Style

About Citing Web Sites

For each type of source in this guide, both the general form and an example will be provided.

The following format will be used:

References - entry that appears at the end of your paper.

In-Text Citation - entry that appears in the body of your paper after a direct quote or paraphrase.

Information on citing and several of the examples were drawn from the APA Manual (6th ed.).

Numbers in parentheses refer to specific pages in the manual.

Web page from a University site (p. 206)

If the author's names are given, follow this format:

 
Reference list:

Author Surname, First Initial. Second Initial. (year of last update or copyright year; if not known, put n.d.). Title of specific document. Retrieved from Name of University website: URL of specific document

Example:

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/

In-Text Citation:
      (Author Surname, Year, page or paragraph number [if available])
 
Example:
      (Johnson & Becker, n.d.)
 

If NO authors' names are given, follow this format:

 
Reference list:

Name of University.(year of last update or copyright year; if not known, put n.d.). Title of specific document. Retrieved from URL of specific document

Example:

The College of William and Mary. (n.d.). College mission statement. Retrieved from http://www.wm.edu/about/administration/provost/mission/index.php

In-Text Citation:
      (The College of William and Mary, Year, page or paragraph number [if available])
 
Example:
      (The College of William and Mary, n.d.)
 
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). 
  • 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. 

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