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APA 7th edition - Citations: Websites

APA 7th edition

Websites

General format

Reference List 

AuthorLastName, A. A. (year, Month day). Title of webpage. Website Name. http://www.website.com/webpage

In-Text

(AuthorLastName, Year)

Note: For reports & gray literature accessed on websites, see the Reports page.

Notes on Dates

  • If no date, use n.d.
  • If a last updated (or modified) date is clearly for the specific content you are citing, rather than the overall website, use the updated date. If the updated date is a site-wide date (e.g. a site-wide copyright date), use n.d.
  • Do not use a date of last review as the date, because content that has been reviewed has not necessarily been changed. If a date of last review is noted on a work, use n.d.
  • Some websites and webpages change over time but also provide stable / archived versions of their material. In these cases, a retrieval date is not needed. 
    • Example: Wikipedia articles have an archived link, so no retrieval date is required. (9.16, 10.3 #49)
      • The archived link for a Wikipedia article is found under View History - Click on specific date.
  • Only include Retrieved from date in your reference list if the source you are using is designed to change regularly (e.g. Dynamed, UpToDate, Facebook, Twitter, online dictionary or encyclopedia entry).  The format would be Retrieved April 27, 2020, from https://xxx  (section 9.16)

1. Webpage - Individual Author

Reference List 

Mulhauser, G. (2014, December 20). An introduction to cognitive therapy & cognitive behavioural approaches. Counselling Resource. http://counsellingresource.com/types/cognitive-therapy/

In-Text

(Mulhauser, 2014)

2. Webpage - Organization or Group Author

Reference List 

National Defense and the Canadian Armed Forces. (2021, July 16). Canada transfers Command of Multinational Counter-Terrorism Naval Task Force. https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national- defence/news/2021/07/canada-transfers-command-of-multinational- counter-terrorism-naval-task-force.html

Note: If the author and the website name are the same, list them only once as the author, then remove the publisher from the reference list (before the URL) and do not list them a second time.


In-Text

(National Defense and the Canadian Forces [NDCF], 2021)
(NDCF, 2021)

Note: When an organization has a recognized abbreviation, include the full organization name in the first in-text citation along with the abbreviation. Use only the abbreviation in all subsequent in-text citations.  

3. Webpage - Government Agency

Reference List 

BC Cancer. (n.d.). Life after cancer. Provincial Health Services Authority. http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/health-info/coping-with-cancer/life-after-cancer

In-Text

(BC Cancer, n.d.)

4. Webpage - No Date and No Author

Reference List 

Kitchen appliances - airfryers, grills, pasta makers & more (n.d.). Philips. https://www.philips.ca/c-e/ho/kitchen-appliances.html

In-Text

(Kitchen Appliances, n.d.)

Notes: If there is no author, use the title of the webpage in the author space for both the full reference and in-text citations.
- If the title is lengthy, you can shorten the title in the in-text citation and only use the first few words.
- Italicize the title in both the full reference and the in-text citation.
- In the in-text citation, use Title Case (capitalize all words four letters or longer).

5. Citing an Entire Website

In-text: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation website (http://www.cbc.ca/) provides the latest news from around the world.

Note: When citing an entire website (but not a specific document on that site), no entry is required on the Reference List.

6. Article on a News Website

Reference List 

Cooper, A. (2019, October 22). The cost of climate change: Trial to decide whether ExxonMobil was honest with investors. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/22/us/exxonmobil-trial-climate-change-tillerson/index.html

In-Text

(Cooper, 2019)

Note: News website are different than newspaper websites. News websites do not have associated daily or weekly newspapers.

 

See 'Articles page' for more examples of news articles. 

7. Wiki Entry: No Author

Reference List 

Auscultation. (2020, July 17). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Auscultation&oldid=968193366

In-Text

(“Auscultation,” 2020)

Note: Wikipedia includes a permanent URL to archived versions in "View History". If you provide the permanent URL, you do not need to include retrieval date. If a wiki does not provide a permanent link to an archived version, provide Retrieved from date in front of URL, in format Retrieved July 17, 2020, from https://xxxxxx

8. Blog Post

Reference List 

Ouellette, J. (2019, November 15). Physicists capture first footage of quantum knots unraveling in superfluid. Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/study-you-can-tie-a-quantum-knot-in-a-superfluid-but-it-will-soon-untie-itself/

In-Text

(Ouellette, 2019)

Note: Blog posts are formatted the same as articles, instead of websites. For more information on how to format an article, visit the Articles page. 

9. Blog Post Comment

Reference List 

Wickwick. (2019, November 18). Hundreds of milliseconds seems like an eternity for computing purposes. Volatile computer memory would decay several orders of magnitude faster [Comment on the article“Physicists capture first footage of quantum knots unraveling in superfluid”]. Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/study-you-can-tie-a-quantum-knot-in-a-superfluid-but-it-will-soon-untie-itself/

In-Text

(Wickwick, 2019)

Note: Author is the person who made the comment. Use up to the first 20 words of the comment as the title.

10. Online Codes and Standards

Reference List 

National Fire Protection Association. (2019). Standard for fire fighter professional qualifications (NFPA 1001).

In-Text

First in-text: (National Fire Protection Association [NFPA], 2019, section 6.2)
Subsequent: (NFPA, 2019, section 5.3)

Note: Available through Library database, treat as print.  Author and publisher same, so do not repeat author in source element.

11. Statistics and Data Sets

Visit the APA - Statistics page for more information on citing statistics and data sets.