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Citation Guide Old: How to cite WEBSITES

Websites

Website citation

Title of Homepage. Date of publication. Edition. Place of publication: publisher; [date updated; date accessed]. Notes.

If no date of publication can be determined, use a copyright date (if available), preceded by “c”. Include the URL in the notes.

If no date can be found use [date unknown]

Examples

Entire Website

APSnet: plant pathology online. c1994–2005. St Paul (MN): American Phytopathological Association; [accessed 2005 Jun 20]. http://www.apsnet.org/.

Page within a website

Kishbaugh K. 2015. What you need to know about paying for veterinary school [Internet]. American Veterinary Medical Association. [cited 2015 Jun 20]. Available from: http://atwork.avma.org/2015/10/22/what-you-need-to-know-about-paying-for-veterinary-school/.

Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee. 2009. University of Wisconsin-Madison policy for multisite research studies using human pluripotent stem cells [Internet]. Madison (WI): University of Wisconsin-Madison; [cited 2013 Sep 12]. Available from http://www.grad.wisc.edu/admin/committees/scro/documents/MultisiteresearchpolicyFinal.pdf

Online Articles

Online Journal Article citation

Author(s) of article. Date of publication. Title of article. Title of journal (edition). [date updated; date accessed];Volume(issue):location. Notes.

Examples

Article with a DOI number from a database

Arscott WT, Tandle AT, Zhao S, Shabason JE, Gordon IK, Schlaff CD, Zhang G, Tofilon PJ, Camphausen KA. 2013 Dec. Ionizing radiation and glioblastoma exosomes: implications in tumor biology and cell migration. Transl Oncol. [accessed 2014 June 5];6(6):638-648. doi:10.1593/tlo.13640.

DOI may be included in the notes in addition to URL

Savage E, Ramsay M, White J, Beard S, Lawson H, Hunjan R, Brown D. 2005. Mumps outbreaks across England and Wales in 2004: observational study. BMJ. [accessed 2005 May 31];330(7500):1119–1120. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/330/7500/1119. doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7500.1119.

Article without DOI 

Sumners J. 2014 May 15. Missouri citizens are key to deer management success. MO Conserv. [accessed 2014 May 25];75(6):24-29. http://mdc.mo.gov/sites/default/files/magazine/2014/05/20140601.pdf.

Government Document

Working Group on Diversity in the Biomedical Research Workforce (US). 2012. Draft report diversity in the biomedical research workforce [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Institutes of Health (US); [cited 2013 Sep 12]. Available from http://acd.od.nih.gov/Diversity%20in%20the%20Biomedical%20Research%20Workforce%20Report.pdf

eBooks

Author(s). Date of publication. Title of book. Edition. Place of publication: publisher; [date updated; date accessed]. Notes.

Examples

eBook from a database with a static URL

Denison RF. c2012. Darwinian agriculture: how understanding evolution can improve agriculture. Ewing (NJ): Princeton Univ Press; [accessed 2014 Jan 12]. http://www.fortlewis.edu/Library/IPChecking.asp?http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx? direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=nlebk&AN=444096&site=ehost-live

eBook from an online source

Brogden KA, Guthmille JM, editors. 2002. Polymicrobial diseases. Washington (DC): ASM Press; [accessed February 28, 2014]. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2475/.

Blog

Author’s name. Date of publication. Title of post [descriptive word]. Title of blog. [accessed date]. URL.

Example

Fogarty M. 2012 Aug 14. Formatting titles on Twitter and Facebook [blog]. Grammar Girl: Quick and dirty tips for better writing. [accessed 2012 Oct 19]. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/formatting-titles-on-twitter-and-facebook.aspx.