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If you are using a screen reader to view this page, please be aware that the templates and examples contain important punctuation and formatting, such as commas, full stops, uppercase text and italics, that are a vital part of referencing. You may need to change the punctuation settings and other settings on your screen reader software in order to correctly hear this information. It may work best to turn on an indication for capital letters and to navigate the templates one character at a time to ensure that all punctuation and capital letters are announced correctly. If you have any problems with this, please contact the library.

Examples

By Author

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Template

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AUTHOR'S SURNAME, First Initial(s)., Publication year. Page title. [online]. Place of publication: Publisher. Available from: URL [Accessed date].

Example

Citation
Paraphrasing / Summarising

(Mulvey 2006)

Mulvey (2006) suggests that ...

Quoting

"..." (Mulvey 2006)

According to Mulvey (2006), "..."

Reference List

MULVEY, S., 2006. Chernobyl's continuing hazards. [online]. London: BBC. Available from: http://news/bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4942828.stm [Accessed 16 February 2006].

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When you can't find a personal author, just use the organisation/owner of the website as the author.

ORGANISATION OR OWNER OF WEBSITE, Publication year. Page title. [online]. Place of publication: Publisher. Available from: URL [Accessed date].

Example

Citation
Paraphrasing / Summarising

(University of Florida. College of Medicine 2007)

University of Florida. College of Medicine (2007) suggests that ...

Quoting

"..." (University of Florida. College of Medicine 2007)

According to the University of Florida. College of Medicine (2007), "..."

Reference List

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA. COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, 2007. Patient care. [online]. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida. Available from: http://www.med.ufl/edu/patients/index/shtml [Accessed 13 December 2007].

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Sometimes it can be tricky to find publishing information on websites. Try this!

Finding the Publisher

In general, the organisation on whose website the web page sits will be the publisher. If this is not clear, look for ‘About Us’ or ‘Contact us’ information, or scroll to the bottom of the page and look for copyright information; you should see an organisation mentioned.

Finding the Place of Publication

The address of the organisation's headquarters should be mentioned in ‘About us’, ‘Contact us’ or ‘Our Offices’. You can treat the town or city where the organisation is based as the place of publication.

Finding the Year

On some pages, a date may be given at the top of the page. If no date is listed there, scroll down to the bottom of the web page and look for a copyright or ‘last updated’ date.

If you still cannot find a date, but the page you are looking at, and the rest of the website, seems to be continually updated and there are no indications that the page is older, you can use the current year as your date.

If you are in any doubt however, use n.d. (meaning no date) for the year.