APA Style (7th ed.)
The American Psychological Association (APA, 2020) suggests the following format for citing "dynamically created maps" (p. 347):
Company name. (n.d.) [Description of map in square brackets]. Retrieved Month, Day Year from URL
Similarly, the suggested format for "software and mobile apps of limited distribution" (APA, 2020, p. 339) is:
Company or individual name. (Year). Title of work (version #) [Computer software/mobile app]. Publisher. URL.
Since log in credentials are required by Simply Analytics to create and view maps, our suggestion is to include the Simply Analytics home page URL when referencing a map, as follows:
Simply Analytics. (n.d.). [French as first official language spoken in Vancouver census metro area 2016]. Retrieved December 14, 2019, from https://simplyanalytics.com/
Keep in mind that the goal of a reference is to get your reader as close as possible to the source you used, so the information in square brackets should be descriptive enough for others to access the data you used; for more information, see Basic Principles of Reference List Entries from the APA Style website.
Reference
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000
