You must cite your source of information any time you use another person’s ideas, opinion or theory. You must also provide citations for any facts, statistics, graphs, or drawings that are not common knowledge. Quotations of another person's actual spoken or written word and paraphrases of another person's spoken or written words must also be cited.
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Below are APA examples for information found in Statista. Use the citation generator to get the elements of the citation. Retrieval dates are not necessary since the information will not change. If there is no author, use Statista as the author.
Pro Football Reference. (February 14, 2022). Super Bowls won by NFL team from 1967 to 2022 [Graph]. Statista. https://www.statista.com/statistics/266516/number-of-super-bowl-wins-by-nfl-team/
US Census Bureau. (November 30, 2021). Educational attainment in New Jersey in 2020 [Graph]. Statista. https://www.statista.com/statistics/306986/educational-attainment-new-jersey/
Statista. (February 1, 2022). What brands are the laptops in your household? [Graph]. Statista. https://www.statista.com/forecasts/997234/laptop-ownership-by-brand-in-the-us
WEBSITE EXAMPLES
American Experience PBS. (2021, February 21). 1921: The Tulsa Race Massacre [Video].YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_-iWaTOiqw
Joffe-Wolf, C. (Host). (2020, July 23-2020, August 20). Introducing: Nice White Parents [Audio podcast]. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-parents-serial.html
Tucker, E. & Miller, Z. (2020, Jan. 18). Dems gear up to make case for Trump's removal. HuffPost. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dems-gear-up-to-make-case-for-trumps-removal_n_5e23569ec5b6321176149dbe
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab has one of the best websites devoted to academic writing and citing sources. With definitions and examples, visit the site to learn how to create an annotated bibliography.
