Write the author's last name, followed by a comma and the author's first name, as follows:
Martin, Ellen
Add the date that the article or reference was published inside of parentheses. A period follows outside of the parentheses. If you are writing out a date with a day, month and year, it should look like this:
Martin, Ellen (2009, May 2).
Write the name of the author's article--or the name of the web page--in quotations, with a period inside of the quotations at the end of the title.
Martin, Ellen (2009, May 2). "Learning How to Water Ski."
List the name of the website on which you found the article. Follow this with a period.
Martin, Ellen (2009, May 2). "Learning How to Water Ski." Outdoor Life.
Write "Retrieved [DATE] from" followed by the web page's full URL--including the "http://"--where you found your article.
Martin, Ellen (2009, May 2). "Learning How to Water Ski." Outdoor Life. Retrieved March 1, 2010 from http://www.outdoorlife.com/activities/how-to/learning-how-to-water-ski
Cite the article within the text by writing the last name of the author followed by a comma and the year the reference was published. If you wish to cite a particular page from the reference, this goes after the date and another comma. Within the text, these citations go after the sentence in which the information has been cited, inside of parentheses but before the sentence's period. For example:
Lake Marble, Lake Tanzania and Lake Pinta are the sites of the deadliest water skiing accidents (Martin, 2009, p. 2).