Web pages with a group or organisational author
You may need to consult more than one section to accurately represent the source used (eg. number of authors and source descriptions)
In-text citation examples
Use the first few words of the reference entry.
…the overall achievement standards for year seven (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], n.d.).
Referring to an entire website (not referring to specific content):
When referring to an entire website, but not to any specific content on that website, as per the example below, no in-text citation or reference list entry are required. See the APA Style Blog for more information.
You Are Not So Smart is a website that exposes almost universal behavioural irrationalities (http://youarenotsosmart.com/).
Reference list
Reference list template
Group name. (Date). Title of page. URL
Reference list example
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. (n.d.). English: Year seven. https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/learning-areas/english/year-7
Make sure to look at the style notes
Tips for this style
In-text
- When citing a website in general, you only need to provide the web address in parentheses in the text. An entry in the reference list is not needed.
- For in-text citations, use only the Year of the web page, do not include the Month and Day.
Reference list
- APA 7 Publication Manual, pp.284,298–300,350–351.
- Because not all Internet sources have title and copyright pages, this information can be difficult to find. In general, include the same elements, in the same order, as you would for a reference to a fixed-media source, and add as much electronic retrieval information as needed for others to locate the sources you've cited.
- For a page on a government website without individual authors, use the specific agency responsible for the webpage as the author.
- The name of the website (source) is usually required before the access link (source). However, when the author name and the site name (source) are the same, omit the site name from the source element.
- The year of publication may not be obvious - check for a posting, creation or update date. Include the Month and Day in your reference list entry where available.
- The abbreviation (n.d.) is used in the date position if no publication date is available.
- The title of the web page should be italicised.
- Specific formats can be included in brackets immediately after the title, e.g., [Lecture notes] or [Video webcast] if it will make the reference clearer.
- The words 'Retrieved from' are not required before the URL.
- The date when an electronic resource was retrieved is only needed if the content being cited is likely to be changed or updated. In that case only, provide the [Retrieved Month Day, year, from] statement before the URL.
- Use the home page URL rather than more specific addresses which may change, except when citing articles from sites such as media sites or government agencies, where it may be difficult to locate specific articles.
- Do not insert a hyphen if you need to break a URL across lines. Break the URL before a slash or dash or at another logical division point.
- Do not include a full-stop after the URL at the end of the reference.
- It is acceptable to use either the default display settings for hyperlinks in your word-processing program or plain text. Links should be live if the work is to be published or read online.
- Any shortened URL is acceptable in a reference as long as you check the link to ensure that it takes you to the correct location.
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