Document from a Web site (APA)
Reference list entries
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2012, December 10). Concussion in winter sports. Retrieved from http://
Gerber, A. S., & Green, D. P. (2012). Field experiments: Design, analysis, and interpretation. Retrieved from Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies website: http://
Wagner, D. A., Murphy, K. M., & De Korne, H. (2012, December). Learning first: A research agenda for improving learning in low-income countries. Retrieved from Brookings Institution website: http://
Explain
List as many of the following elements as are available:
- author’s name
- publication date (or “n.d.” if there is no date)
- title of the document, italicized
- URL that will take readers directly to the document
If the publisher is known and is not named as the author, include the publisher in your retrieval statement.
Note that in an APA paper or an APA reference list entry, the word “website” is spelled all lowercase, as one word.
Note on breaking URLs and DOIs
- If you must break a URL or a DOI at the end of a line, break it after a double slash or before any other mark of APA-133punctuation.
- Do not add a hyphen.
- Do not put a period at the end of the entry.