If you want to mention a website as a source, do so in the text followed by the URL in parentheses; do not include a reference for the entire website in the references list.
Authors of works are individuals or groups who participated in its creation. Individuals and groups may appear together in a reference as authors of a work.
Individual names used in a reference generally appear in the formats "LastName, A. A." or "A. A. LastName" depending on location in the reference. For example, "Obama, B. H." or "B. H. Obama."
Group authors can be businesses, government agencies, associations, non-profit organizations, task forces, hospitals, and study groups. In a reference full group names are spelled out. For example, "Delaware County Community College" rather than "DCCC."
Authors in specialized roles such as editors, directors, and so on are identified as such. For example, a director as author would appear as "Anderson, W. W. (Director)."
In reference citations the titles of social media and webpages appear in "sentence case." This means that as with a sentence, most words are lowercase. Words capitalized are:
Titles of posts or webpages are also italicized.
Titles of websites are not italicized.
For less standard sources, after the title bracketed descriptions are often provided to identify what these sources are exactly. There are no absolute rules about the language used to describe such sources, but research paper writers should try to be as consistent as is reasonable. Only the first word of these descriptions are capitalized. Some examples:
Group name or Author last name, Initial(s). [@username]. (Publication YYYY, Text month DD). Up to the first 20 words of the post [Additional descriptive information as needed] [Type of post]. Website name. URL
Tweet From a Group
@DCCC_LearnComm [@DLearncomm]. (2020, February 20). Need help with improving your research skills? Sign up for the Getting Started with Research webinar [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/DLearncomm/status/1230166425656053762
Tweet From an Individual
Obama, B. [@BarackObama]. (2020, February 1). Sixty years ago today, the Greensboro Four stood up to injustice by sitting down at a lunch counter [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1223706755693187078
Group name or Author last name, Initial(s). [Username]. (Publication YYYY, Text month DD). Up to the first 20 words of the post [Additional descriptive information as needed] [Type of post]. Website name. URL
Facebook Post
APA Style. (2019, December 3). In your #APAStyle paper's title, capitalize all words of 4+ letters (even "With" and "From"). [Status update]. Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/APAStyle/
Group name or Author last name, Initial(s). [Username]. (n.d.). Home [Type of page]. Website name. Retrieved Text month DD, YYYY, from URL
Facebook Page With Group Name; No Date
American Psychological Association. (n.d.). Home [Facebook page]. Facebook. Retrieved February 20, 2020, from https://www.facebook.com/AmericanPsychologicalAssociation/
Group name OR Author last name, Initial(s). (Publication YYYY, month name, DD). Title of webpage: Subtitle of webpage. Website name. URL of the webpage
News Website Article
Armstrong, K., & Miller, T.C. (2019, September 5). Netflix series based on our work explores costs of not believing rape victims: The series, “Unbelievable,” draws from our award-winning reporting with The Marshall Project and “This American Life.” ProPublica. https://www.propublica.org/article/netflix-series-based-on-our-work-explores-costs-of-not-believing-rape-victims
Webpage With a Group Author
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (n.d.). Vaccine development and surveillance: Strategy overview. https://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Health/Vaccine-Development-and-Surveillance