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Web Page
Citing Sources
 
Format
Example
Author

Last name, First initial (if no author, see exceptions)

Street, J

Date of posting, revision, or last update

year, month day 1998, March 7
Title
Web page title capitalizing only the first word and proper nouns. How to cite electronic sources
Retrieval date
month day, year
July 16, 1998
Location
URL http://www.writer.yorku.ca/staff
/josh/sixth.html
The citation looks like this...
Street, J. (1998, March 7). How to cite electronic sources.
     Retrieved July 16, 1998 from
     http://www.writer.yorku.ca/staff/josh/sixth.html

Exceptions

If the page has no author, place the title of the page in the author field and leave the title field empty.  After you cut and paste the citation to your reference page, you must then remember to delete the extra period between the revision date and retrieval date

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