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2. Referencing Guide: Websites

The St Clare's College Referencing Guide follows the Harvard Referencing Style

Information regarding this guide

This page will provide you information on referencing and in-text referencing websites in the following categories:

Tips when referencing websites:

  • If the date of publication or last update is not easily found on the page, it can often be located at the bottom of the page next to the copyright symbol  ©
  • If the date can not be found, use n.d. to represent no date
  • If the author can not be found, cite by organisation as shown below
  • If you can't find the author or organisation you may need to evaluate the authenticity of the resource. It might be best to use a different source if you can not be sure where the information has come from.
  • When using a direct quotation from a website, include the paragraph you found the quotation in, eg para. 2.

One author

Reference list/Bibliography

Author's last name, author's initial year, Title, viewed date, URL

Example:

Nutting, D 2001, Why did Germans emigrate?, viewed 11 April 2018, http://www.germanaustralia.com/e/why-emi.htm

In-text referencing

Paraphrasing

Nutting (2001) states that there were four main reasons for German emigration...

OR

The four main reasons for German emigration were... (Nutting 2001).

Quoting

Nutting (2001, para. 2) claims that the four main reasons for German emigration were "religion, economic situation..."

OR

Germans emigrated for many reasons such as "religion, economic situation..." (Nutting 2001, para. 2).

 

Organisation as author

Reference list/Bibliography

Organisation name year, Title, viewed date, URL

Example:

Australian War Memorial n.d, Casualties of War, viewed 1 November 2019, https://www.awm.gov.au/wartime/article2

In-text referencing

Paraphrasing

The Australian War Memorial (n.d.) concludes that shell-shock has been around for as long as war has. 

OR

Shell-shock has been around for as long as war has (Australian War Memorial n.d).

Quoting

The Australian War Memorial concludes that (n.d., para. 9) "psychological and neurological reactions to the trauma of war are as old as the history of human conflict itself."

OR

"Psychological and neurological reactions to the trauma of war are as old as the history of human conflict itself" (Australian War Memorial n.d., para. 9).