APA Style: Unknown or Anonymous Author

• "If the title of the work is italicized in the reference, also italicize the title in the in-text citation."
• "If the title of the work is not italicized in the reference, use double quotation marks around the the title in the in-text citation."
• "Capitalize these titles in the text using title case (see Section 6.17), even though sentence case is used in the reference list entry."
• "If the title is long, shorten it for the in-text citation."
• "When the author of a work is overtly designated as 'Anonymous' . . . 'Anonymous' takes the place of the author in the in-text citation."

Book with no author

(Interpersonal Skills, 2019)

Magazine article with no author

("Understanding Sensory Memory," 2018)

Work by "Anonymous" author

(Anonymous, 2017)

(Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 2020, pp. 264–265).