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APA Quick Reference

This only explains how to cite websites and documentaries commonly used in this class.

The purpose of refernces and citation is to show where you obtained your information. This always should answer this question: How is my reader going to retrieve this source? The answer will often clarify how the reference should be formatted.  

References / Works Cited Page

Make a page (printed at the end of the paper on a separate page) for all the sources of information you have used: books, journal articles, websites, government reports, etc. Then you must also use in-text citations to show which source you are quoting your information.

Websites: For a passing reference to a website in text, the URL is sufficient; no reference list entry is needed. Example: According to Heartland Institute’s mission statement, all US policies should be based on free market capitalism.(Heartland.org)

However, when you are citing a particular document or piece of information from a website, include both a reference list entry and an in-text citation. The key to creating the reference list entry is to determine the type of content on the web page. Basically, provide the following four pieces of information:

Author, A. (date). Title of document [Format description]. Retrieved from http://xxxxxxxxx

Many non-profit information blogs have no date or author, so these are cited as follows.

Managed Care. (n.d.). Department of Health. Retrieved February 1, 2013, from www.health.ny.gov/health_care_manged_care/index.htm

This has no author and no date. The next example has no author but does have a date.

Five facts about the uninsured. (2012). [Issue Brief # 7806-0]. Kaiser Family Foundation Retrieved September 4, 2012 from www.kff.org/uninsured/7806.cfm

Citation Instructions The in-text citation includes the author and date (Author, date), as with any other APA Style citation.

When there is no author, date use the following rules: The Works Cited page would look like this: Summary of New Health Reform Law (Last modified April, 2011). Kaiser Family Foundation (publication # 8061) website: kff.org/healthreform/8061.cfm.

This work has no author so the citation in text would be (Summary of New Health Reform Law, 2011) for the first citation and then (Summary,2011) for any following in text citations.

Another example: Health Reform Hits Main Street (n.d.). Kaiser Family Foundation website:www.kff.org/healthreform/Health-Reform-Hits-Main-Street.cfm

This is more difficult to cite in text, since it has no date and no author: it would be (Health Reform Hits Main Street, n.d.) or (Health, n.d.) for later in-text citations.

Video: as we use Frontline PBS videos, which are documentaries, not movies or TV shows.

Frontline, PBS (Producer). (date). Title of episode [Documentary]. Available from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/

Example:

Frontline, PBS. (Dretzin,R). (1998). High Price of Health [Documentary]. Available from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/high_price_of_health

Hamersly Library and the Writing Center have created new citation guides for the APA, MLA, and Chicago formats. 

These guides can be found on the library home page (www.wou.edu/library)  from the Cite in APA,MLA...tab. 

If you would like to add a guide to Moodle, the guides may be accessed individually at: 

APA      http://research.wou.edu/apa

For more information go to the American Psychological Association, APA, website:

http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2010/11/how-to-cite-something-you-found-on-a-website-in-apa-style.html