AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION (APA) 7TH EDITION
SAMPLE REFERENCE CITATIONS FOR entry in an online dictionary
*The source of these reference samples is: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples
American Psychological Association. (n.d.). Just-world hypothesis. In APA dictionary of psychology.
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Parenthetical citation: (American Psychological Association, n.d.; Merriam-Webster, n.d.)
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Narrative citation: American Psychological Association (n.d.) and Merriam-Webster (n.d.
Because entries in the APA Dictionary of Psychology and Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary are updated over time and are not archived, include a retrieval date in the reference.
The author and publisher are the same for the dictionaries in the examples, so the name appears in the author element only to avoid repetition.
To quote a dictionary definition, view the pages on quotations and how to quote works without page numbers for guidance. Additionally, here is an example: Semantics refers to the “study of meanings” (Merriam-Webster, n.d., Definition 1).
