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Cite an electronic source

In general, you should cite an electronic source within your paper in the same way as you would a print source, by placing the author's last name (or short title of the source, if there is no author) and year of publication in parentheses.

The following table gives some examples of how to cite electronic sources in more unusual cases.

When you have . . .

Here's what you do:

Sample Citation

Entire Web site

Don't put on reference list. Include URL in-text instead

The University of Wisconsin's Writing Center Web site is an excellent source of information on writing (http://www.wisc.edu/writing/).

Direct quotation from electronic source without page numbers

Use paragraph numbers (preceded by para. or ¶); add section numbers for long documents

Universal interventions "target the general public or a whole population group that has not been identified on the basis of individual risk" (Greenberg et al., 2000, Section I, para. 20).

 

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