How to cite world health organization apa

APA Style (7th ed.)


A blog post will basically be like a regular web article citation, though you might not have a person's real name to use.




Be very cautious
if you're referencing a blog or comment in your paper. These aren't generally the best sources to use in terms of authority.


Ruiz, V. (2007, August 8). Wearing your anatomy on your skin: The anatomy tattoo gallery.
 Street anatomy: Medicine + art + design
. http://streetanatomy.com/blog/?p=132

If you're referring to a
comment
on a blog post:

c4nn1b4l. (2009, August 9). Must have one [Comment on article "Wearing your anatomy on your skin: The anatomy tattoo gallery"]
Street anatomy: Medicine + art +design
. http://streetanatomy.com/blog/?p=132

APA 7th ed. 10.1, Ex. 17 & Ex. 18, p. 320





Chapter 11 in APA's Publication Manual discusses legal references, including laws, regulations, and constitutions. Section 11.9 (pp. 366-368) has the rules for citing constitutions and similar documents.

If you are citing the entire constitution, all you need to do is to name it in your text. You do not need a formal citation or reference. If you do choose to cite the entire Consitution, the citation would look like this:

World Health Organization (WHO) (1946). Constitution of the World Health Organization. Basic Documents, Geneva: World Health Organization.

If you are citing a specific article or paragraph of a constitution, the format of the reference is:

Title of document art. xx, para. x.

Begin the title with the abbreviated name of the body and use the abbreviation 'Const.' for 'Constitution'. 'art. xx' stands for 'article number'. If there is no article number, leave this out. 'para. x' stands for 'paragraph number'. Count paragraphs from the beginning of the article. If you are citing the entire article, leave this out. No date or URL is included.

The format for a parenthetical in-text citation is the same as for t


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.


Remember
: an author/creator may be an organization or corporation, for example Health Canada. If you don't have a person's name as the author, but do have the name of an organization or corporation, put that organization/corporation's name as the author.


Anonymous


If and only if an item is signed as being created by Anonymous, use "Anonymous" where you'd normally put the author's name.


In-Text


When you have no author, use a shortened version of the title where you'd normally put the author's name.

If you're citing something which is part of a bigger work, like an article from a magazine, newspaper, journal, encyclopedia, or chapter/short story from a book, put the shortened title in quotation marks in your in-text citation:

Example, paraphrase: ("A few words", 2014)

If you're citing an entire work, like a book, website, video, etc., italicize the shortened title in your in-text citation:

Exa

APA Publication Manual 7th ed.


Items found in an archive can be a little different.  Check out the examples below for guidance about what citations might need to include for these items. 
 

No Title

A letter is not likely to have a title, so instead you substitute a description in brackets in the title position.

Nightingale, F. (1866, July 15).
[Letter to Madame Schwabe].
Reynolds-Finley Historical Library. https://uab.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/NIGHTINGALE/id/97

 

Archive's Title

If you think using the title assigned by the library would help, you could put the title the archive has given the document in the title position instead of a description. (Because the library's title identifies the source as being a letter, you do not need to add [Letter] after the title.)

Nightingale, F. (1866, July 15).
Florence Nightingale letter to Madame Schwabe, July 15, 1866.
Reynolds-Finley Historical Library. https://uab.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/NIGHTINGALE/id/97


Parenthetical citation: (Nightingale, 1866)

Narrative citation: Nightingale (1866)


 

Multiple Items

Per APA "If several letters are cited fro