Last edited 12 July 2006 (Document started 10 Nov 1997 Comments welcome (email s.draper@psy.gla.ac.uk).

How to refer to (my) web documents

This is based on draft APA style advice ( Land (2001)) on how to refer to web documents in papers and bibliographies.

While an in-line example would be "Bloggs & Smith (1996)", in the bibliography it would be:
Bloggs,X. & Smith,A.B. (1996, August 14). Paper's title [WWW document]. URL http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/XXXX.html (visited 1997 April 1)

... or in the case of my documents, in-line would be Draper (2002), and the bibliography entry:
Draper,S.W. (2002, May 14) Web page title [WWW document]. URL http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/XXXX.html (visited 2003 April 1)

Note that the point of the first date ("1996 August 14") is to record the version date of the document you saw (most of mine will have this at the top of the document); while the point of the optional "visited" date ("1997 April 1") is to record when that URL was valid for readers wishing to follow it up.

References

Land, B. (2001, July 1). Web Extension to American Psychological Association Style (WEAPAS) (Rev. 2.0) [WWW document]. URL http://www.beadsland.com/ARC/1996/beadsland/ROOT/weapas/html/index/

Land, T. [a.k.a Beads] (1997, October 21). Web Extension to American Psychological Association Style (WEAPAS) (Rev. 1.4.3) [WWW document]. URL http://www.beadsland.com/weapas/

Another APA ref

Australian document on APA/Harvard style