20 Creating Citations for Webpages

The 4 Ws for the webpage (there are four slides)

 

The footnote for the webpage:

Footnote for a webpage highlighted in different colours and labels for each W (who, what, where, when). footnote is: 1. Sarah Glassford, "Volunteering in the First and Second World War," War Time Canada, accessed May 4, 2021, https://wartimecanada.ca/essay/volunteering/volunteering-first-and-second-world-war.

The bibliographic citation for the webpage (click image to see it bigger)

Bibliography citation for a webpage highlighted in different colours and labels for each W (who, what, where, when). Citation is: Glassford, Sarah. "Volunteering in the First and Second World War." War Time Canada. 2021. https://wartimecanada.ca/essay/volunteering/volunteering-first-and-second-world-war.

 

The website example above has an individual author.

  • Author:  list the author of the website. If there is no author you can use the owner or sponsor of the website and move it to the author position. If there is no sponsor information, move the title to the first position.
  • Title: the specific title of the page in headline-style and in quotation marks. Note that the title comes first in the footnote but comes after the author information in the bibliography.
  • Location 1: owner or sponsor of the website as a whole.
    • Note: if the author and the owner or sponsor of the website are the same, then you can skip this part of the citation
  • Date: the publication date of the webpage content. If no publication date is given include the date of access.
  • Location 2: URL of the webpage. Add a period after the URL.

Note: Website citations can often be limited to the notes.

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