Suggestion delete this first part:For almost all sources, you will only need to put the year the source was published in your reference list entry, in parentheses like so:
(2020).
Alternative wording:
Enclose the date of publication in brackets, followed by a full-stop.
Check the date format for the reference type you have in the APA Style guide pages .(Link to our Guide)
For example:
When referencing a webpage, you need to include the most accurate date possible, as webpages can change frequently.
This means you need to include both the month and the day (if that is available) in your reference, like so:
(2020, March 4).
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Some sources may not have a date of publication mentioned. If that is the case, put (n.d.) which means 'no date', like so:
(n.d.).
If you have mutiple works by the same author and they are published in different years, they would be listed chronologically in your reference list, like so:
Keefe, P. R. (2019). Say nothing: A true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland. Doubleday.
Keefe, P. R. (2021). Empire of pain: The secret history of the Sackler dynasty. Picador.
If you have mutiple works by the same author and they are published in the same year, add lower case letters (a,b,c) immediately after the year. They would be listed in the reference list in alphabetical order from the title, like so:
McMillan, C. (2024a). Cricket, capitalism and class: From the village green to the cricket industry. Routledge.
McMillan, C. (2024b). Inclusivity, diversity and the absent prescence of class: A logistics approach to England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) policy discourse. Sport in Society. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2024.2313531.
For the in-text citation, write the year with the letter (McMillan, 2024a) to be able to distinguish between the sources.
If you found two sources by the same author but there was no date on either source, you would use the same guidelines, like so:
(n.d.-a) & (n.d.-b)