Q&A for How to Cite a Website in Text in APA

You can either rewrite it in your own words or put the paragraph in quotation marks to show it's quoted from somewhere.

You'd still only reference the website once. Or, you can use notations (1,2 etc.) like footnotes if you wish.

If there are two authors, always cite both authors' names when you reference them. For three to five authors, provide all the author's last names the first time you cite them, then cite the first author and et al. for all subsequent references. For six or more authors, always cite the first author and add et al.

As you are writing or using the words of that author, in APA you would write: as cited in Jones, 2010 in-text or (as cited in Jones, 2010) as in-text bracketed.

You could cite this as: [Title of the Web Page] by [Author] available at [type URL here]. An example would be: Mickey's FAQs by Mickey the Mouseketeer available at www.mickeymouseketeer/FAQs.org.

In-text, if a document has six or more authors, simply provide the last name of the first author with "et al." from the first citation to the last. For fewer authors, cite each name with & between the penultimate and last named authors. For the References section, cite all names unless there are more then seven authors, in which case, cite the first six, then use an ellipsis (...) and finish with the last named author. For any amount under seven, list all names in the References section.

When a work has no identified author, cite in text the first few words of the article title using double quotation marks, “headline” style capitalization, and the year.

You should cite the website URL, the name of the website, and the access date.

In APA, you should not cite the URL in-text. You only need the author and publishing year. If you do not have the author, you can include the name of the web page.

In the latest version of APA, you can include the URL in your reference list ("retrieved from ...") but it should not be in your in-text citations.