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How do you cite online resources?
Include information in the following order:
- author (the person or organisation responsible for the site)
- year (date created or last updated)
- page title (in italics)
- name of sponsor of site (if available)
- accessed day month year (the day you viewed the site)
- URL or Internet address (pointed brackets).
How do you cite no year?
If no author or date is given, use the title in your signal phrase or the first word or two of the title in the parentheses and use the abbreviation “n.d.” (for “no date”). Another study of students and research decisions discovered that students succeeded with tutoring (“Tutoring and APA,” n.d.).
How do you cite a source with no date?
If a source is missing both the author or publication date, the citation will include the title, “n.d.” for “no date,” and the source. Make sure that there is no identifiable author. Sometimes the author is a company or other group rather than an individual.
When citing an online source what should you include?
Cite web postings as you would a standard web entry. Provide the author of the work, the title of the posting in quotation marks, the web site name in italics, the publisher, and the posting date. Follow with the date of access. Include screen names as author names when author name is not known.
What are the 4 electronic sources?
Proper APA Format for Electronic References
- Online Documents.
- Online Journal Article.
- Article Retrieved from a Database.
- Online Newspaper Article.
- Electronic Version of a Print Book.
- Online Forums, Discussion Lists, or Newsgroups.
What is an online source?
The term ‘online sources’ refers to any materials you find online. An online source could be a blog post, a newspaper article published online, a journal article you have read online or an online video.
What are the electronic sources?
Electronic resources (or e-resources) are materials in digital format accessible electronically. Examples of e-resources are electronic journals (e-journal), electronic books (e-book) online databases in varied digital formats, Adobe Acrobat documents (. pdf), WebPages (.