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How to Cite Something You Found on a Website in APA Style: What to Do When Information Is Missing
Reference template
What’s missing?

Solution

Position A

Position B

Position C

Position D
Retrieved from
http://URL

Nothing; I’ve got all the
pieces

n/a

Author, A.

(date).

Title of document [Format].

Author is missing

Substitute title for
the author

Title of document
[Format].

(date).

Retrieved from http://URL

Date is missing

Use “n.d.” for no
date

Author, A.

(n.d.).

Title of document [Format].

Retrieved from
http://URL

Title is missing

Describe the
document inside
square brackets

Author, A.

(date).

[Description of document].

Retrieved from
http://URL

Author and date are both
missing

Combine author
and date methods

Title of document
[Format].

(n.d.).

Retrieved from http://URL

Author and title are both
missing

Combine author
and title methods

[Description of
document].

(date).

Retrieved from http://URL

Date and title are both
missing

Combine date and
title methods

Author, A.

(n.d.).

[Description of document].

[Description of
document].

(n.d.).

Retrieved from http://URL

Author, date, and title are Combine all three
all missing
methods

Retrieved from
http://URL

Note. The basic reference template is made up of four pieces: author, date, title (with format in brackets if necessary), and source (the
URL). When one or more of these pieces is missing, use the method shown above to adapt the template. In-text citations use the pieces
from Position A and Position B (usually the author and date, but if there’s no author, then the title and date—more details available at
http://www.apastyle.org/learn/faqs/web-page-no-author.aspx).

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