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APA Citation Style 6th Edition: C. No Author

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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.).

Document from a Web site with no Author

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): 
      (Title of specific document, Year)
 
NOTE: If the title of a document is long, use a shortened version for the
in-text citations.
     
      In-Text Citation (Quotation):
      (Title of specific document, Year, page or paragraph number [if available])
 
      References:
      Title of specific document. (Last update or copyright date; if not known, put n.d.). In
            Title of website. Retrieved from URL of specific document
  
Example
 
       In-Text Citation (Paraphrase): 
      (Neurology, n.d.)
 
       In-Text Citation (Quotation):
      (Neurology, n.d.)
 
      References:
      Neurology. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved August 8, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org
            /wiki/Neurology
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