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Hi, If you are writing something scholarly and you want to do and in text cite of a website or web page, how would that look? Can anyone give me an example?


http://www.helptalking.com/

Citing a web page, you would put in: 'The article title' (2008b)

If you have several, it would be 'article x' (2009) and 'article y' (2008a).

Note that if you have several articles from the same year, the (2008a) etc

The bibliography would look like this:

Bibliography
(2009) Class equipment 'can be a waste'. BBC. Available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/... [Accessed April 2, 2009:].

(2008a) Distractions 'hit old-age memory'. BBC. Available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/774... [Accessed November 26, 2008:].

(2008b) Teenagers' learning 'dumbed down'. BBC. Available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/... [Accessed October 27, 2008:].

If you're not using footnotes and/or a bibliography, but citing the text within the body of your article, you can use italics for the actual quote, set off with regular text that reads something like, according to this website, or according to so-and-so at www.somewebsite.com.

If you're citing a long passage, several paragraphs, from a website and want to do this within the body of your article, you segue in with a line introducing the source, which may be a website, then you put the entire direct reference in italics with larger, yet equal left and right indents than you normally use throughout body of your article.

In other words, you set the direct quotes off so that the reader knows it is a direct quote from somewhere else. The Chicago Manual of Style is also a help in this regard, and if you don't own one, your local library should have one. Depending on what and whom you're writing for, you may instead want to go with AP style, such as writing for newspapers and magazines, and in that case, you can Google AP style and come up with a herd of references to tell you exactly how to format for newspapers, etc.

Really what you're asking about is a formatting issue.

For what it's worth...

Mari

Brett wrote: "Hi, If you are writing something scholarly and you want to do and in text cite of a website or web page, how would that look? Can anyone give me an example?
title of work, author, date and url

http://www.helptalking.com/"

Brett wrote: "Hi, If you are writing something scholarly and you want to do and in text cite of a website or web page, how would that look? Can anyone give me an example?


http://www.helptalking.com/"

Web page

The cabin at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site is designed to be "symbolic of the one in which Lincoln was born" (National Park Service, 2003, para. 1).

Note: page or chapter number should be included if available on the web site.

Have more questions?

For up-to-date information on citing electronic sources, go to the APA Style Guide to Electronic References or Online! For citing government documents, or if you have additional questions, consult the current edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, available from the Perkins and Lilly Reference desks.

Thanks Everyone, those were helpful tips. I think I am looking at something more like Sue was demonstrating, not a quote and not from an article. So, my internal citation would be the name of the site and the year and possibly the paragraph inside parenthesis and the I am sure I would also list the full website citation in my bibliography...would you agree?

Glad this was helpful, Brett.

check out owl.english.purdue.edu for citation guides

Very good suggestion.