How to cite a webpage in APA 7

Use this format for a page on a website that is not a news article, a journal article or a social media post. If the page has no author at all, see citing a website with no author.

Reference list format

Author, A. A. or Group Name. (Year, Month Day). Title of the page in sentence case. Website Name. URL

Alder, J. (2025, February 12). How to read a research paper in 20 minutes. Open Study Hub. https://example.org/read-a-paper

• Author. An individual, written surname first with initials. If the page is credited to an organization, the organization is the author: spell out its full name, not its abbreviation.
• Date. Give as specific a date as you can: year, month and day if shown. If the page lists a date of last update, use that. Don’t use a “last reviewed” date, because reviewing doesn’t mean the content changed.
• Title. The page’s title, in italics and sentence case.
• Website name. Added before the URL when it differs from the author. If the organization is both the author and the website, leave the name out and give just the URL.
• URL. At the end, with no period after it.

No date

If the page shows no date, write (n.d.) where the year goes.

Brightwell Public Library. (n.d.). Using the interlibrary loan service. https://example.org/ill

In-text citation

Use the author and year, or the author and “n.d.” for an undated page.

• Parenthetical: (Alder, 2025) or (Brightwell Public Library, n.d.)
• Narrative: Alder (2025) explains that…

When to use a different format

• A news site’s article is cited as a newspaper or magazine article if the outlet has a print edition or calls itself a newspaper or magazine. See citing a news article.
• A post on social media has its own format, for example an X post.
• A page you cite often because it changes, such as a live dashboard, may need a retrieval date. APA asks for one only for unarchived pages designed to change over time.