Referencing a Web Page

Referencing a web page

When referencing something you have found on the web you need to distinguish what you are referring to  as the internet is made up of a vast range of material from journal articles to personal and organisational  websites. Below is a list of information you can include:

Author/Editor or Organisation, Year the site was published or last updated, Title of work - main title  and subtitle (screen heading/sub-heading), Online address or location within database - full address  (URL or DOI), Date you looked at the information, the access date.

You can also include other identifying features such as a page or screen reference, paragraph or line  number or perhaps a labelled section or part of a table or graph.

Type of medium  - for example online database, online bulletin board.

Publisher and place of publication  - for example documents on portable databases, which organisation has  prepared the materials and where they are located.

Name of database.

Organisational website:  following is the example for referencing a  website:

National Trust (2011) Planning for the people. Available at: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-chl/wcountryside_environment/w-planning-landing.htm (Accessed: 20 September 2011).