There have been some NZMaths referencing questions coming through AskLive in the past few days. I am aware of the variety of options available to us for creating what is a decent APA7 reference. After consulting with John, we went with the following format:
Ministry of Education, (YYYY). Title of thing in italics. NZMaths. https//:www.nzmaths.abc123
Don’t worry if you have given someone slightly different advice. I’m sure that I have struggled through different options in the past.
A bit of an explanation so this is a bit less mysterious: It is likely each of these will be a ‘webpages on a websites’ type of reference. So the basic format is:
Author. (Date). Title of webpage. Website Name. URL
The webpages I have seen so far have no specific authors (no byline), and so the ‘About’ webpage is consulted to find the authors; here it is the Ministry of Education. All the webpages I have seen have no date, so n.d. is used instead of a date. (If students have several pages from nzmaths, they’ll need to add a, b, c and so on after this, so becoming n.d.-a and n.d.-b and n.d.-c and so on in the references and corresponding in-text citations. The order is that of the reference list, i.e. in title alphabetical order).
The Website Name is a little tricky, but following APA’s ‘cite what you see’ principle, I suggest nzmaths (top left of each webpage plus it’s the Website Name you see when you use Search on the website).
A good chance then that a from this website a reference will be:
Ministry of Education. (n.d.). Title of webpage. nzmaths. https://nzmaths.co.nz/rest-of-webpage-link