Reference machine: Internet pages - APA style
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. (2003). Reference machine: Internet pages. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The English Language Centre Web site: http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/referenceMachineNet.aspx
Bibliography entry for an Internet Page
(Using the APA style, which is
the style used by the English Language Centre) Warning: the style for citing Internet
sources changes as the Internet becomes more widely used; e.g. APA has removed
the requirement for the retrieval date. Click here for more details on citing electronic resources
using APA style.
Last updated: Tuesday, 17 April 2018
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If you can't find an author's name, for example in a newspaper or magazine, use the title of the newspaper or magazine.
Do not use 'et al.' in bibliographies: quote the names of all the authors and/or editors.
If you don't know which name is the family name and which are the other names:
- Look at the pages in the front of the book for the Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. If you see the author's name with a comma after the first word, then that first word is the author's family name.
- Use the library catalogue to search for the title of the book, then look for the author's name.
- Search for the book at Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble, find the book by its title, then look for the author's family name.
- Check the list of other names.
- If you can't find the information in the sources above, use all of the name.
The author's initials are the first letters of each of the author's other names. For example, if the author is Chan Wai Man, then the initials are W. M.
If this page is on a university or government site, write the name of the department, then Web Site |