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How to cite a webpage in APA 7

Webpages take a fuller date than books or articles when one is given, the page title is italicized (it stands alone — there is no larger italicized container), and the site name appears in plain type before the URL.

A worked example

The APA Style blog’s own “How to cite ChatGPT” post — a real page at a URL you can open.

Reference list entry

McAdoo, T. (2023, February 23). How to cite ChatGPT. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt

In-text citation

(McAdoo, 2023)

Why it looks like this

You identified this as a webpage.

Author: McAdoo, T. — A single author is written family name first, with given names reduced to initials.
Title treatment: “How to cite ChatGPT” is italicized — A webpage stands on its own, so APA italicizes its title.
Date: (2023, February 23) — A webpage publishes on a fast cycle, so the full date is given, not just the year.
Source line: “APA Style” is italicized as the website — The website is what carries the webpage — APA names it right after the title.
Retrieval link: https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt — No DOI is on record, so the URL is used instead — also with no trailing period.

Easily confused with

report: If this were a report instead, the date would drop back to the year alone and there would be no separate container to name at all.
video: If this were a video instead, the source line would be labeled a channel/platform rather than a website.

What Citeory checks on a webpage

These are the checks the engine runs on this source type — a reference missing any of them is flagged before you paste it into a paper:

Missing title — required for website sources.
Missing URL — required for website sources.

Citeory also verifies the source exists — records are checked against Crossref, DataCite, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar and PubMed, so a reference that cannot be found anywhere is flagged rather than formatted. The citation above was produced by that same rules engine, not written by hand and not generated by AI.

Format and check your webpage citation →
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