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citing famous quotes in essays?

hi all,
i need to quote albert einstein in one of my research papers. thing is, i found his quote in a website. i’m ok with the in-text citation… i just have a problem with my references list/bibliography. what is the format (APA style) of quoting his quote from the website?!

do i use this:
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of document. Retrieved month day, year (only if the text may potentially change over time), from http://Web address

if so, who’s the author?

If the website does not state what source they got Einstein’s quote from, then there is only one source involved: the website, so you only need to list the details of the website in the List of References, and nothing about the quote itself (the in text citation would lead the reader to the section of the web page that Einstein’s quote appears on).

The author in your example above would be the author of the web page you got the quote off. That is often difficult to find for websites. If you don’t have an author, make the title of the web page the main entry and move the date after it, as shown at the URL below.

If the web site is quoting from another source, have an entry in the bibliography at the end for the web site as stated above (not the one that it is quoting). Then in text you would write something like the following :

For APA format –

In text order looks like this :
….. as Einstein said, “….[what he said]…” (as cited in Great Quotations Web Site, 2006, para. 5)…..

or similar.

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