Leeds Numeric: Website or webpage
Reference examples
Family name, INITIAL(S) (or company name). Title. [Online]. Year. [Date accessed]. Available from: URL
Examples:
Hawking, S. Professor Stephen Hawking's website. [Online]. 2000. [Accessed 25 August 2017]. Available from: http://www.hawking.org.uk/
Environment Agency. River and coastal maintenance programmes 2013-14. [Online]. 2013. [Accessed 25 August 2017]. Available from: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk
Citation examples
Website or webpage
When citing material found on a website, you should cite it like any other source, usually the citation number in brackets. Do not include the URL of the website in your citation.
If you are citing specific information from a website that does not have page numbers, you do not need to include anything to indicate this in the in-text citation.
Common issues
When you're referencing with Leeds Numeric you may come across issues with missing details, multiple authors, edited books, references to another author's work or online items, to name a few. Here are some tips on how to deal with some common issues when using Leeds Numeric.
Skip straight to the issue that affects you:
- Online items
- URL web addresses
- Multiple authors
- Editors instead of authors
- Corporate author(s) or organisation(s)
- Locating publisher details
- Multiple publisher details
- Editions and reprints
- Missing details
- The work of one author referred to by another
- Anonymising sources for confidentiality
- Identifying the authors’ family name (surname)