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APA Citation Style 7th Edition: B. Website from a University Site

About Citing

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

The following format will be used:

In-Text Citation (Paraphrase) -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 The OWL at Purdue.

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

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

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

Web page from a University site (p. 206)

Helpful Tip
  • 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).  If you reference an article from Wikipedia, for example, you would want to include a retrieval date because information in a wiki can be subject to a lot of change.
General Format

      In-Text Citation (Paraphrase): 
      (Author Surname, Year)
     
      In-Text Citation (Quotation):
      (Author Surname, Year, page or paragraph number [if available])
 
      References:
      Author Surname, First Initial. Second Initial. (Last update or copyright date; if not
            known, put n.d.). Title of specific document. Retrieved from Name of University
            website: URL of specific document
  
Example
 
       In-Text Citation (Paraphrase): 
      (Johnson & Becker, n.d.)
 
       In-Text Citation (Quotation):
      (Johnson & Becker, n.d.)
 
      References:
      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/
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