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How to List Websites in APA Format Within the Essay

The American Psychological Association style guide is a formatting style for academic papers used commonly in the social sciences. The APA style guidelines dictate how to format your paper and how to cite sources both in the form of a works cited page, and in the text of the paper so that you give credit to the sources that you used to write your paper. If you do not do this correctly, you will be plagiarizing, which is illegal.

Instructions

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  Type an opening parenthesis at the end of any direct quotes or direct references to a website. This should be before the end punctuation.
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  Type the website's author's last name after the parenthesis. If there is no author listed, type the title of the website page you are citing. Then type a comma.
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  Type the publication year, if available, and follow it with a comma. If it is not available, do not add anything.
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  Type a "p." followed by the page number where the information you are citing is located on the website. There may not be multiple pages, if there are not, do not add anything.
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  Close the parenthesis inside the end punctuation mark.

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