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APA Citation Style Guide: Citing Websites

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Website Citations

General Format:

Author, A. A. (year). Title of Document. Retrieved from http://www.xxxxx

Example:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2009). CDC recommendations  for the amount of time persons with influenza-like illness should be away from others. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/guidance/exclusion.htm 

For more information on citing websites see:

How to Cite Something You Found on a Website in APA Style

*Note all references must have a hanging indent and be double spaced*

What do you do when some of the website information is missing?

*From http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2010/11/how-to-cite-something-you-found-on-a-website-in-apa-style.html.html