How do I cite an online tutorial found on a library website that doesn't have a listed author?
Answer
I’ll use one of our tutorials from our Getting Started page as an example. If you are using a tutorial from a different library, they might have created it in a different format, which would alter the citation (say a Word document as opposed to a video).
I’m using the example for a streaming video from p. 26 of The APA Style Guide to Electronic Resources, 6th edition (available to CSS students here).
Our tutorials are somewhat of a narrated PowerPoint, but they are video, and the majority of the information is from the voice-over, so I think the video format is appropriate. Here is the APA example -
User name. (year, month day). Title of video [Video file]. Retrieved from http://xxxxx
For our purposes, since the tutorial is explaining how to use the CSS Library, the author would be the CSS Library (a corporate as opposed to a personal author). Our tutorials are not dated, or have an update listed, so we will use the “no date” abbreviation. From there it is a just a matter of title, then in brackets notation of the format, and then the URL. Something like this -
The College of St. Scholastica Library. (n.d.). Library tutorial: Module 1: Overview of library resources and website [Video
file]. Retrieved from http://resources.css.edu.akin.css.edu/library/docs/APA%20ELECTRONIC%20REFERENCES.pdf