APA: Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources

How to Cite Web Pages

• Name of author or editor (if given)
• Date of material (if given)
• Title of article or project accessed 
• Title of web site, database, periodical, or professional site (italicized)
• Any additional information required for a comparable type of source
• Page numbers or the number of paragraphs or numbered sections
• Publisher, computer service, or organization sponsoring Web site
• Date you retrieved the information
• URL (address of Web page)

Frequently, you will need to look at other pages in the same web site to find this information. You will usually not be able to find all of the information listed above. However, you must always provide the following three fields.

 Examples

Typical Web Page on university department Web site

 Karper, E. (2006, September 28). Creating a thesis statement. Retrieved August 3, 2007, from Purdue University,

The OWL at Purdue Web site: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/545/01/

 (Note: URL components may be broken after a slash or before a period, if needed)

Typical Citation for Government Web sources

Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The Merck Company

Foundation. (2007). The state of aging and health in America 2007 report (Interactive version).  Retrieved

from http://www.cdc.gov/ aging/saha.htm

Federal Trade Commission.  Consumer Response Center. (2006, February).  Take charge: fighting back against identity

theft (Booklet).  Retrieved from http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/ pubs/consumer/idtheft/idt04.pdf

National Institute of Mental Health. (2007). Depression [Booklet] (NIH Publication No. 07-3561).  Retrieved from

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/ depression/ nimhdepression.pdf

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Which citation is in the correct format? a. Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications. 3rd ed. Redmond: Microsoft, 2004. b. Karper, E. (2006, September 28). "Creating a thesis statement." Retrieved March 3, 2007, from http://owl, english.purdue.edu/owl /resource/545/01/ c. Landsberg, Joe. Study Guides and Strategies. <http://www.studygs.net/attmot4.htm> d. Landsberger, J. (1996). Effective study habits. Study Guides and Strategies. Retrieved August 11, 2007, from http://www. studygs.net/ e. McGrath, A. Curing campus blues. U. S. News & World Report (November 1, 2004) 137: 63

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