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APA Style 7th Edition

General Webpage on a Website Citation

References: General Format

If the author and website name are the same, omit the website name from the citation. 

Author Lastname, Author FirstInitial (or corporate author).  (Year the webpage was last updated, Month Day).  Title of the page. Website name. URL.   

Health Canada. (2019, February 18). Eating well with Canada’s food guide. http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/index-eng.php

In-text Citation: Direct Quote 

(Author lastname, Year, paragraph. #).

Websites do not have page numbers, so use the abbreviation para. to indicate the paragraph number where the direct quote can be found. 

(Health Canada, 2019, para. 5).

In-text Citation: Paraphrase

(Author lastname, Year).

(Health Canada, 2019).

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