How do you cite evidence without an author?
When a source has no known author, use a shortened title of the work instead of an author name. Place the title in quotation marks if it’s a short work (such as an article) or italicize it if it’s a longer work (e.g. plays, books, television shows, entire Web sites) and provide a page number if it is available.
How do you cite the evidence?
State the idea you had about the text (if you are responding to a specific question, be sure your idea restates the question). Now give supporting evidence from the text. To cite explicitly, paraphrase or use quotes from the text. If you use direct quotes from a text, you must use quotation marks.
Can you cite something without quoting it?
If you are referring to an idea from another work but NOT direct quoting the work, or if you are making a reference to an entire article, book or other work, you will only cite the author and date, and not the page number.
What should be done if the article has no author?
When a work has no identified author, cite in text the first few words of the article title using double quotation marks, “headline” style capitalization, and the year.
How should a writer cite a source in text when it has more than three authors?
Three or more authors When mentioning the authors in the text, give all of the authors’ names or list the first author and write “and others”. For the parenthetical citation and Works Cited citation, give the first author’s name followed by et al.
What if there is no author to cite for a website apa?
Cite in text the first few words of the reference list entry (usually the title) and the year. Use double quotation marks around the title or abbreviated title.: (“All 33 Chile Miners,” 2010). Note: Use the full title of the web page if it is short for the parenthetical citation.