APA - Guide to Citing Electronic Resources

 

With the proliferation of electronic resources and the changing nature of the internet, it has become difficult to find standardized documentation styles.  Individual instructors may require that you follow a specific style that differs from those shown below.  This is an interpretation of the APA (American Psychological Association) Style that will hopefully meet the needs of UWBC students in citing resources

                                                 

Tip:  If you are paraphrasing, using a direct quote or an idea from an internet source, print the page so that your instructor and other readers may verify the accuracy of the information.

 

PERIODICAL – newspaper, magazine, journal, etc. published at regular intervals

MAGAZINE – periodical intended for general readers

JOURNAL – periodical for professionals and students, which usually appears

four times a year; articles contain original research or interpretations of data and texts. 

 

·       FULL-TEXT PERIODICAL ARTICLES FROM A DATABASE IN AN ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE.

 

Formula: Author (if known). (Date of publication) in parentheses. Title of Article.  Title of Periodical, Volume(Issue), Page numbers. Retrieved [date of access] from [database].

 

EBSCOHOST:  Note:  Title of database is determined by which one you selected.

 

Hawkins, Dana.  (2000, January 17). Cheap video cameras are monitoring our every move.  U.S. News & World Report, 128(2), 52.  Retrieved February 23, 2000, from MasterFILE Premier database.

 

Reis, Janet, & Riley, William L.  (2000, September). Predictors of college students’ alcohol consumption: Implications for student education. Journal of Genetic Psychology,161(3), 282-291.  Retrieved May 1, 2003, from Academic Search Elite database.

 

PROQUEST DIRECT

 

Fox, Justin.  (1999, March 15). What in the world happened to economics? Fortune 90-102. Retrieved March 2, 2000, from ABI/INFORM Global database.

 

LEXISNEXIS

 

Heart disease deaths among women may be linked to geography.  (2000, February 16). Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), metro ed., 3A. Retrieved February 23, 2000, from LexisNexis Academic database. 

  

 

WILSONWEB

 

Hofmann, Mark A.  (2000, January 3).  Same-sex couples’ right to benefits upheld.  Business Insurance, 34(1), 3+. Retrieved February 23, 2000, from Business Abstracts Full Text database.

           

CQ RESEARCHER

 

Cooper, Mary H.  Employee benefits.  (2000, January 28). Retrieved February 29, 2000, from The CQ Researcher database.

 

FACTS.com

 

Domestic Violence. (2000, August 31).   Retrieved September 20, 2000, from
 Issues and Controversies database.

 

 

·          INFORMATION FROM PROFESSIONAL OR PERSONAL WEB SITES:

 

Formula: Author’s last name, first name (if known).  Title of document. (Document date—use the abbreviation n.d. in parentheses if the date is not known).  Retrieved [date of access] from [name of organization sponsoring or associated with the site] Web site:  complete URL address. 

 

Keeping Wisconsin deer healthy. (2003, April 17).  Retrieved May 6, 2003, from Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Web site: http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/wildlife/hunt/deer/.

 

All of the above examples are for use in a Bibliography or Works Cited list.

 

·        CITING SOURCES IN THE TEXT.   If you are using in-text citations of electronic sources in APA style, use the author’s last name or the first few words of the title if no author’s name is given. If page numbers, screen numbers or paragraph numbers are included on the web site, include those in the reference as well.

 

         Example: (Coates, 2000, para. 1)             

         Example: (“Keeping Wisconsin,” 2003)    

 

·        MLA STYLE web site – www.mla.org

·          APA STYLEweb site:  www.apastyle.org/elecref.html                     

  

APAciteMay03Rev

Courtesy of Nancy Bigler, UW Washington County