General Rules: Citing Information Quoted or Paraphrased from a Trade Association or Professional Organization Website
In-text Citation: Information to Include
In-text citations and signal phrases can be woven into sentences and paragraphs in multiple ways, and what you emphasize depends on what information will be most relevant and/or persuasive to your reader. However, the following information should always be included:
Note: including an attributive tag that mentions your organization’s website will help readers distinguish between the organization’s website and their social media sites.
Reference Citation: Information to Include
Use a retrieval date when the information you're citing isn't dated.
Organization. (notation for “no date”). Title of specific page on website in sentence case. Retrieved date, from URL_but_not_active_hyperlink
Specific Example: Information Quoted or Paraphrased from an Organization’s Website
In-text Citation Options
According to AICPA (n.d.), eligibility requirements to take the exam vary by state, but every state requires 150 semester hours for licensure.
Eligibility requirements to take the exam vary by state, but every state requires 150 semester hours for licensure (AICPA, n.d.).
References Page Entry
American Institute of CPAs (AICPA). (n.d.). AICPA regular member eligibility requirements. Retrieved May 1, 2018, from https://www.aicpa.org/membership/join/eligibilityrequirements.html
Specific Example: Trade Journal Article Posted on a Professional Organization Website with an Author & Date
Sometimes professional organizations post content from their trade publications on their websites. For example, SHRM, an organization for human resources professionals, publishes many articles from HR Today and HR Magazine on its website. Cite these articles as trade publication articles.
Specific Example: Article Posted on a Professional Organization Website with an Author & Date
Sometimes professional organizations post articles not associated with a trade publication. Cite these as web articles.
In-text Citation Options
The American Marketing Association's website, reporting on recent research, suggested that consumers may not want to indulge in pleasurable shopping after viewing tragic or upsetting content (Jolivet & Arroyo, 2023).
Jolivet & Arroyo (2023), reporting on a recent study published in the Journal of Marketing Research, suggested that consumers may not want to indulge in pleasurable shopping after viewing tragic or upsetting content.
References Page Entry
Jolivet, G. & Arroyo, C. (2023, September 13). When it feels wrong to feel good: Consumers don’t want "corrective" content after exposure to human suffering. American Marketing Association. https://www.ama.org/2023/09/13/when-it-feels-wrong-to-feel-good-consumers-dont-want-corrective-content-after-exposure-to-human-suffering/
Specific Example: Overview of Organization and/or its Website
If you are giving a broad overview of the website and/or professional organization and not citing or summarizing a specific page, you cite it only with an end-of-sentence parenthetical.
In-text Citation Example
The Society of Actuaries website is easily navigable, and users can quickly locate all the information they are looking for (https://www.soa.org).
References Citation Example
Because you did not cite any specific information or a specific webpage, this is not cited on your References page.