Locate the following information from your electronic source: author name, publication date, title, source (magazine, encyclopedia, journal), page numbers, date that the information was accessed and the web page's URL.
Organize the information so that it is in the following order and format: "Author. (Date). Title. Source. Date retrieved. Web address."
For example, if you were citing a Psychology text, the APA format would be as follows: "Smith, J. (2002). Psychology and the Modern Child. Psychology Today. Retrieved July 21, 2009. http://www.psychologytoday.com."
Check your work and be sure that the information is in the correct order and that all of the names and titles mentioned are spelled correctly. Failure to cite the right sources can lead to accusations of plagiarism and can also severely diminish the quality of your research findings.