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For an in-press work, use “in press” for the date in both the reference list entry and in-text citation. For a work with no date, use “n.d.” in both the reference list entry and the in-text citation.
Websites often have no author, date, or title. APA provides guidelines for citing sources with missing information.
Though the APA's author-date system for citations is fairly straightforward, author categories can vary significantly from the standard "one author, one source" configuration. There are also additional rules for citing authors of indirect sources, electronic sources, and sources without page numbers. Cite your source automatically in APA.
If no author or creator is provided, start the citation with the title/name of the item you are citing instead. Follow the title/name of the item with the date of publication, and the continue with other citation details.
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No publication date. If the publication date is unknown, use “n.d.” (no date) instead. For example: (Johnson, n.d.).
If the authors are the same, but the items don’t have a date, you need to write n.d. for no date, and add the lowercase letters as before, but this time you also need a hyphen before the letter e.g. (n.d.-a).
Use only the year in the in-text citation, even if the reference list entry contains a more specific date (e.g., year, month, and day). For works with no date, use “n.d.” in the in-text citation. For works that have been accepted for publication but have not yet been published, use “in press.”.
No Date. No Page Numbers. No Title. No Author. If no author or creator is provided, start the citation with the title/name of the item you are citing instead. Follow the title/name of the item with the date of publication, and the continue with other citation details. Note: an author/creator won't necessarily be a person's name.
If no date is provided, use the initials n.d. where you would normally put the date. Also use the initials n.d. if the date of content is difficult to determine, such as on a Wikipedia page. No Page Numbers. Page numbers migh not be provided for some items, such as online materials. If this is the case, use the following guidelines. Reference List.