General Format

(Author Surname, Year, page [if available] or section heading/paragraph number)

(Author Surname, Year)

Personal or Corporate Author. (Last update or publication date; if not known, use n.d.). Title of specific webpage. Site Name. URL of specific webpage

Example: Webpage with an Individual Author

(Sims, 2018, para. 2)

(Sims, 2018) 

Sims, A. (2018, February 26). The most popular houseplants of spring 2018. Architectural Digest. https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/popular-houseplant-trends-spring-2018

Example: Webpage with a Group Author that has a Known Abbreviation

(Human Resources Institute of Alberta [HRIA], 2015, para. 2)     For the first time you cite this source.

(HRIA, 2015, para. 2)     For any subsequent citations.

(Human Resources Institute of Alberta [HRIA], 2015)     For the first time you cite this source.

(HRIA, 2015)     For any subsequent citations 

Human Resources Institute of Alberta. (2015). Protecting the public. http://www.hria.ca/protecting-public 

Tips

• Find more examples on the official APA Style website and in the APA Manual (10.16).
• Sometimes sources are missing pieces of information that you would typically include in a citation (like an author or a date). Use this Missing Reference Information guide created by APA to help you cite these sources.
• If the website name is the same as the name of the group author, you do not need to include the site name in the reference entry (10.16).
• When citing sources that you find online, most will not require a retrieval date. Only include a retrieval date if the information you viewed is from an unarchived source that is likely to change over time (9.16). If you reference an article from Wikipedia, for example, you would not need a retrieval date because there is an archive available.
• The file type will not impact the citation. To cite a PDF source, determine the type of source (e.g. government publication, book, article, etc.) and use the format for that source type.