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APA Guide: Basic (including no author & no date)

Guidelines

References: An entry that appears at the end of your paper.

Personal or Corporate Author. (Last update or copyright date; if not known, put n.d.). Title of specific document. Retrieved from URL of webpage or specific document

In-Text Citation (Paraphrase): An entry that appears in the body of your paper when you express the ideas of a researcher or author using your own words.  For more tips on paraphrasing check out.

(Author Last Name, Year)

In-Text Citation (Quotation): An entry that appears in the body of your paper after a direct quote.

(Author Last Name, Year, page or paragraph number)

Basic Web sites

References:

Browning, T. (1993, August 23). A brief historical survey of women writers of science fiction. Retrieved from http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tonya/Tonya/sf/history.html

Please Note: Put the exact web address after "Retrieved from". Also, sometimes you have to scroll down to the bottom of a web page to see a copyright date or when a page was last modified.


In-Text Citation (Paraphrase):

Browning (1993) describes 

(Browning, 1993).


In-Text Citation (Quotation):

(Browning, 1993, para. 12).


No date reference

If there legitmately is no indication of when a page was created or last modified put "n.d." for no date. For example:

Beard, M. (n.d.). The fall of the Roman Republic. Retrieved from       

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/fallofromanrepublic_article_01.shtml


No date in-text citation

For a web page with no date, put "n.d." for no date. For example:

(Beard, n.d.).


No author reference

If there is not an author, the title of the web page (or document) takes the place of the author in your reference. Do not use italics. For example:

Esomeprazole. (2013). Retrieved from

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a699054.html


No author In-text citation

For a web page with no author, put quotation marks around the title of the the web page. For example:

("Esomeprazole," 2013).

 

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