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Note: This guide reflects the latest version of the APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7).
Note: If you cite multiple webpages from a website, create a reference for each. Include the date you retrieved the information if the content is likely to change over time.
APA Style is widely used by students, researchers, and professionals in the social and behavioral sciences. Scribbr’s APA Citation Generator automatically generates accurate references and in-text citations for free. This citation guide outlines the most important citation guidelines from the 7th edition APA Publication Manual (2020).
The manual way to cite a website To cite a website by hand just follow the instructions below. For the 3 most popular styles–APA, MLA 8, and Harvard–this is as follows: In APA style You need to locate these details for the website: page or article author, page or article title, website name, published date, access date, page URL (web address). The author can typically be found on the page ...
This guide provides information about creating APA 7 Reference List and In-Text Citations
To cite a website in APA style, follow this general format: With an Author:Last name, Initials. (Year, Month Day). Title of the webpage. Website Name.
In APA reference citations, titles use the sentence case except for periodicals (newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, etc.), so capitalize only the first word of a title, the first word after a colon, or proper nouns. In text, however, use the standard title case. The in-line citations for a website in APA format are even easier.
When citing specific information from individual web pages, use the following elements to create your citation. For more information on creating citations when some of the elements are missing, see the APA Style and Grammar Guidelines page on missing reference information.
In-Text Citation -Generally, the in-text citation is written inside a parenthesis with the last name of the author and year of publication separated by a comma or if the name of the author is listed within the text, only the year is written inside the parenthesis.
Learn how to create APA in-text citations and full references for basic web pages, entire websites, and social media (Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram).
Provide guidance on APA format style based on the 7th edition of the APA Publication Manual.
To see more examples and other situations of citing sources in APA style, see the library's online APA Citation guide. You can also find the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th edition) in the Knowledge Center’s reference collection and the Book Stacks.
The manual way to cite a website in APA format To cite a website by hand just follow the instructions below. First, you need to locate these details for the website: page or article author, page or article title, website name, published date, access date, page URL (web address).