Many online resources are covered elsewhere in this guide, including:
The information on this page should only be used if the resource that you are citing is not covered elsewhere in this guide.
Examples of in-text citations:
Hassan (2019) suggests that...
OR
Australia's population is now more than 25.5 million (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2020).
Your reference should be for the precise page that the information was found on, rather than for the home page of the site.
If a date cannot be found, use (n.d.) in the date field.
Where dates are available, use the most specific date possible - include the month and date where these are available.
If a website contains a year of creation as well as the year it was last updated, use the date of the last update.
When the author and the site name are the same, omit the site name from the reference.
If the page content is expected to change over time (for example, on a news page) you should also include a date retrieved as part of your reference. This is the date that you accessed the material
If the page does not have a title, use up to the first twenty words of text on the screen in the title field
Reference lists should be arranged in alphabetical order by author. All lines after the first line in each individual reference should be indented by 1.25cm. For more information on setting out your reference list, refer to the 'Reference List Example' page of this guide.
Where you are referencing a website that is expected to change regularly (e.g. a news website), your reference should include the date that you retrieved information from the site.
Author's surname, Initials. (Year, month day). Page name in italics. Site name. Retrieved month day, year, from: URL
Australian Bureau of Statistics (2020, March 20). Population clock. Retrieved April 22, 2020, from https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs%40.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/1647509ef7e25faaca2568a900154b63?OpenDocument
The site name does not appear in the example above because it is the same as the author name.
As the organisation is both the author and the site name, the site name element is omitted from the reference.
Organisation name. (Year, month day). Page title in italics. URL
World Health Organization. (2020). Ebola virus disease. https://www.who.int/health-topics/ebola/#tab=tab_1
The webpage used in the example above only shows the year for this page, so the month and day are omitted from the reference.
Author's surname, Initials. (Year, month day). Page title in italics. Site name. URL.
Khan, S. (n.d.) What is cord blood banking — and is it better to use a public or private facility? Mayo Clinic. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/labor-and-delivery/expert-answers/cord-blood-banking/faq-20058321
If you are citing multiple web pages from same website, distinguish the different pages by inserting a lower case letter after the year e.g. 2020a, 2020b. 'a' should be attached to the first reference, sorted alphabetically.
Degree students can borrow 15 items at a time (Box Hill Institute 2020a). The library produces online guides known as LibGuides (Box Hill Institute 2020b).
Box Hill Institute. (2020a), Borrowing. https://studentweb.bhtafe.edu.au/mod/page/view.php?id=654546#libBorrow
Box Hill Institute. (2020b). How can I find subject guides for my course? https://studentweb.bhtafe.edu.au/mod/page/view.php?id=654546#lib012
Note: If the copyright date is not available on the website, the date field would be in the style n.d.-a, n.d.-b.
If you refer to an entire website in the body of your work, include the web address of the site in parentheses. It is not necessary to add a citation for the website to your reference list
e.g Kidspsych (http://www.kidspsych.org) is a children’s website.