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How to Reference an Online Submission Paper in APA Format

The APA style manual is a guide for citing references that is published by the American Psychological Association. APA format is generally preferred for social science papers, such as history and anthropology. When you write papers, almost all teachers will required you to cite the books, articles and other resources that you used to back up your claims. If you do not accurately cite your sources, your references will be unable to be located and your facts won't be able to be checked.

Instructions

- 1
  Look up the author's name, the date of publication, title of the paper and the website.
- 2
  Enter your citation for the online paper in the following format:
  Last Name, First name. (Publication date). Title of paper (in italics). Retrieved from website
  For example,
  Doring, Ken. (2007). Citing resources (in italics). Retrieved from http:www.citationstyling.com
  
  Note that there is no punctuation at the end of the citation.
- 3
  Use "n.d." for the date if you cannot find the date of publication listed on the website.

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