Research Guides: ASA (7th ed.) Citation Style Guide: Websites

Websites

Author	Date	Title	Website Name	URL
Author Last Name, First Name, and First Name Last Name.	2020.	Title of Work.	Site Name.	https://xxxxxx
Name of Group.	2020, April.			Retrieved March 19, 2020 from https:xxxxx (use "retrieved from + date if information is likely to change)
	2020, August 15.
	n.d.

When the author and website name are the same, omit the website name from the citation.
Include a date of access "only if no date of publication or date of revision can be determined from the website. If no date can be determined, use n.d. as the publication in the reference list entry and for the in-text citation."
The DOI or URL is hyperlinked.

For further information on citing websites, see American Sociological Association Style Guide, 7th ed., 2022: 82-85, 88-90.

Webpage on a Website with an Individual Author

Author Last Name, First Name. Year. "Title of webpage or report." Website Name. Month Day, Year (if available). URL

Example

Lockett, Eleesha. 2024. "If My Adult Child has Depression, Is There Anything I Can Do?" Healthline. May 29, 2024. https://www.healthline.com/health/depression/how-to-help-an-adult-child-with-depression

In Text

(Lockett 2024)

Note: if no publication date is available, include access date.

Webpage on a Website with a Group Author

Group Name Acronym (Full Name). Year. "Title of webpage." URL

Example

NOW Foundation (National Organization for Women Foundation). n.d. "Global Feminism." https://now.org/now-foundation/global-feminism/

In Text

(NOW Foundation n.d.)

Blog Post

Author Last Name, First Name. Year. "Title of Blog Post." Name of Blog (blog). Month Day, Year. URL

Garcia, Mark. 2024. "Astronauts Work Final Spacewalk Preps and Genetic Sequencing. " NASA Space Station (blog). June 12, 2024. https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

In Text

(Garcia 2024)

"Blog posts are cited in the same manner as online newspaper articles...In the author/date format, it is sufficient to cite blog posts (as with newspaper and magazines) entirely in the text" (ASA style guide, 7th ed., 2022: 90).

Webpage on a News Website

Author Last Name, First Name. Year. Title of Webpage. Title of Website. URL

Moore, Mike and Elizabeth Whitten. 2024. Explorer Ernest Shackleton's Last Ship Found Off Labrador's South Coast, Says Expedition." CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/shackleton-ship-quest-discovery-1.7232265

In Text

(Moore and Whitten 2024)

Webpage on a News Website - No Author

"Title of Webpage." Year. Title of Publisher/Website. Access date. URL

"BBC Culture." n.d. BBC News. Accessed on June 12, 2024. https://www.bbc.com/culture

In Text

("BBC Culture" n.d.)