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Wintec's APA Referencing Guides

The Wintec APA Guides, with tips and help!

How do I reference multiple pages from one website?

When several pages from a website are being cited in an assignment, if each page has its own URL, then these will have separate reference list entries (with the year and ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’ etc.). These reference list entries will be arranged in alphabetical order of the title.

For example, if you are doing an assignment about the Fieldays at Mystery Creek, and you use information from 3 pages of the same website, your referencing information will look like this:

Reference List

Fieldays. (n.d.-a). Business centre. Retrieved from www.fieldays.co.nz/businesscentre.

Fieldays. (n.d.-b). Media centre: Exhibition areas. Retrieved from www.fieldays.co.nz/exhibitionareas

Fieldays. (n.d.-c). Visitor centre: Event information. Retrieved from www.fieldays.co.nz/eventinformation

In-text citations*

Fieldays (n.d.-a)

Fieldays (n.d.-b)

Fieldays (n.d.-c)

Note on in-text citation: If a year is given, use this and a letter without a hyphen, e.g. 2014a. However, if there is no date, use n.d. and a hyphen before the letter, as in the examples above. 
*Please note – When citing from a web page, usually you would use section headings or paragraph numbers to direct the reader to the relevant part of the page. See below.

If each page you use has a separate URL, you need to reference them separately. In text, list the author (often corporate), date and the section heading and/or paragraph, for example:

​37 % of New Zealand’s birds are at dangerously low levels (Department of Conservation, n.d., Our rarest birds, para. 2).

The Reference list entry refers back to the webpage, not the paragraph, so would read:

Department of Conservation. (n.d.). New Zealand's remarkable birds. Retrieved from http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/native-animals/birds/our-remarkable-birds/

If there is only one paragraph under each heading, just use the heading, for example:

Their aim is to “reduce hospital admissions caused by asthma and other respiratory conditions by 25%, by 2025” (Asthma Foundation, 2012, Our goal). 

 NB: If the heading is long, use a short title in quotation marks, e.g. for the heading “Mandatory Labeling has Targeted Information Gaps and Social Objectives” use a shortened heading, e.g. 

" … consumption behavior” (Golan, Kuchler, & Krissof, 2007, “Mandatory Labeling has Targeted,” para. 4).

How do I refer to a whole website?

When citing an entire website, but not an individual webpage, just give the address of the site in the text only; no reference list entry is necessary. For example:

New Zealand History Online has some good interactive pages that are a useful resource for teachers (http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/library/interactive).

How do I reference a PDF or data set that I’ve downloaded from a website?

Some PDFs open directly in the browser, so you can read them online. These PDFs have direct URLs which you can put into your reference list. If you downloaded it from a web page, simply reference the URL of the page you downloaded it from. For example:

Nursing Council of New Zealand. (2012). Code of conduct for nurses. Retrieved from http://www.nursingcouncil.org.nz/Nurses/Code-of-Conduct

 

Statistics New Zealand. (2013). 2013 Census population and dwelling tables – regional council area, territorial authority area, and Auckland local board area [Data set]. Retrieved from http://statistics.govt.nz/Census/2013-census/data-tables/population-dwelling- tables.aspx