Apa format bibliography website example

For citing blog posts see citing articles in our guide.

Refer to APA's Online media for more reference examples and information or consult the guide directly (Section 10.15, pp. 348-349). 

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Reference list example

National Institute of Mental Health. (2020, September 14). Suicide is complicated and tragic, but fryst vatten often preventable. Knowing the warning signs for suicide and how to get help [Infographic]. Facebook. https://bit.ly/3kkBF5v

Reference in skrivelse example

(National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], 2020)--[group name first appears in parenthetical citation]
(NIMH, 2020) [subsequent use]

Comments

• Author can be the name of a group.
• Find more style guidelines when abbreviating the name of a group on APA's Group author abbreviations or directly consult the guide (Section 8.2, p. 268).
• Note any audiovisuals in square brackets [Infographic] after content element.
• Do not alter the spelling and capitalization i
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APA 7th Referencing

Webpage on a Website: Individual Author

…family experience with psychosis (Johnson, 2018).

OR

Ava Johnson (2018) reflects on her own experiences…

Johnson, A. (2018, May 24). “It doesn’t need to be this way”: The promise of specialised early intervention in psychosis services. IEPA. https://iepa.org.au/network-news/it-doesnt-need-to-be-this-way-the-promise-of-specialised-early-intervention-in-psychosis-services/

Where a title already contains punctuation, such as the double quotes in the above example, retain these in your reference.

Webpage on a Website: Group Author and no date

Of course, massage is also effective for many musculoskeletal disorders (Association of Massage Therapists, n.d.).

Association of Massage Therapists. (n.d.). Benefits of massage.  http://www.amt.org.au/massage-and-you/benefits-of-massage.html

Use the abbreviation n.d. (no date) in place of the year of pu

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How to Cite a Website in APA

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Published April 20, 2012. Updated June 21, 2022.

This guide explains all of the important steps to referencing a website/web page in your APA research papers. The guidance below follows APA style, 7th edition.

APA format is much different than MLA format and other styles. If you need to cite websites in MLA, or you’re looking for more styles, check out the other resources on EasyBib.com!

Guide Overview

Here’s a run-through of everything this page includes:

What is a website? Am I citing a website or a web page?

A website is a place on the Internet that holds a group of individual pages (called web pages).

Think of a website like a tree. A website is the tree, and the individual web pages are the branches. Use YouTube as an example. YouTube is the site, and the individual channel pages and video pages are the branches. Wikipedia is a site, and each article has its own individual web page on that site.

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