• Cite documents published on the internet according to the specific guidelines for the type of document. More specific information is available for Books and Journal Articles.
• Government reports and company annual reports are examples of documents that may be published on the internet.
• When including government entities in a citation, whether as the authoring organization or the publisher, begin with the highest level agency or department, then the next level organization, and so on.
• Provide an access date for content which may change over time. The access date should follow the URL, be written as (accessed YYYY-MM-DD), and end with a full stop. An access date is not needed for content with a DOI due to their stable nature.
Please note: If no author or editor is given and the document is not a part, article or chapter, then citation is by title.
Standard format for citation - Document or Webpage
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Author 1; Author 2; …; Author 10; et al. Title of Document. Title of Site or Organisation, date. URL (accessed YYYY-MM-DD). |
Standard format for citation - Website
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Author or Organization (if any). Title of Site. URL (accessed YYYY-MM-DD). |
Standard format for citation - Blog Post
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Author 1; Author 2; …; Author 10; et al. Blog Post Title. Blog Title. Title of Site or Publisher (if any), date. URL (accessed YYYY-MM-DD). |
Electronic document
1. Byrne, C. Molecular Scissors Slice DNA to Isolate Genes. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2016. http://csiro.au/files/files/p7i7.pdf (accessed 2008-04-24).
2. Head. A. J. Staying Smart: How Today’s Graduates Continue to Learn Once They Complete College. Project Information Literacy, January 5, 2016. https://www.projectinfolit.org/publications.html (accessed 2019-10-07).
Electronic document: Organisation as author
3. American Chemical Society, Committee on Chemical Safety, Task Force for Safety Education Guidelines. Guidelines for Chemical Laboratory Safety in Academic Institutions. 2016. https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/about/governance/committees/chemicalsafety/publications/acs-safety-guidelines-academic.pdf (accessed 2019-10-07).
Electronic document: Commonwealth legislation
4. Industrial Chemicals Act 2019 (Cth). https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2019A00012 (accessed 2019-04-11).
Electronic document: State legislation
5. Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Western Australia) Act 1995 (WA). https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au/legislation/prod/filestore.nsf/FileURL/mrdoc_22572.pdf/$FILE/
Agricultural%20And%20Veterinary%20Chemicals%20(Western%20Australia)%20Act%201995%20-%20%5B02-a0-06%5D.pdf?OpenElement (accessed 2019-04-11).
General Website
6. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program. https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program (accessed 2019-02-21).
7. Rice University. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Home Page. https://chbe.rice.edu/ (accessed 2019-02-21).
8. ACS Publications Home Page. https://pubs.acs.org/ (accessed 2019-02-21).
Webpage on a website
9. Dunham, W. Methane Spotted on Distant Planet. News in Science, ABC online, 2008. http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/03/20/2195187.htm?site=science (accessed 2008-04-24).
10. American Chemical Society, Committee on Chemical Safety, Task Force for Safety Education Guidelines. Guidelines for Chemical Laboratory Safety in Academic Institutions. American Chemical Society, 2016. https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/about/governance/committees/chemicalsafety/publications/acs-safety-guidelines-academic.pdf (accessed 2019-02-21).
Blog post
11. Cantrill, S. Blindingly Simple. The Sceptical Chymist: A Blog from Nature Chemistry. Nature Chemistry, February 6, 2015. http://blogs.nature.com/thescepticalchymist/2015/02/blindingly-simple.html (accessed 2015-06-09).