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APA 7 referencing style: Web sources

A guide to using the APA 7th edition referencing system for in-text citations and reference lists.

APA Examples: Web sources

 

 

See our APA7 Style Guidelines for advice on treatment of single to multiple authors, dates, page numbers and sources within your in-text and end-text references.  

See The APA Style Blog for more audio visual and for web and online sources format for more referencing examples.  

Material Type

In-Text Citation

Reference List & Notes

Wikipedia ("Oil Painting," 2019)

 

Oil painting. (2019, December 8). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oil_painting&oldid=929802398

Blog post (Ouellette, 2019)

Ouellette, J. (2019, November 15). Physicists capture first footage of quantum knots unraveling in superfluid. Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/study-you-can-tie-a-quantum-knot-in-a-superfluid-but-it-will-soon-untie-itself/

Webpage on a government website (National Institute of Mental Health, 2018)

National Institute of Mental Health. (2018, July). Anxiety disorders. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/anxiety-disorders/index.shtml

Webpage with a retrieval date (U.S. Census Bureau, n.d.)

U.S. Census Bureau. (n.d.). U.S. and world population clock. U.S. Department of Commerce. Retrieved January 9, 2020, from https://www.census.gov/popclock/

When contents of a page are designed to change over time but are not archived, include a retrieval date in the reference.